Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele had a huge (though controversial) electoral victory in February 2024. But a small, stubborn ...

Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence, ...

Taking Stock” hearing before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, WOLA’s Director for Central America, Ana María Méndez Dardón, ...

Santa Cruz-Based MS-13 Gang Members to Serve Over 20 Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Commit Murder and Racketeering ...

Erick Escalante-Torres and Jose Noe Ramirez-Avelar, were sentenced to 27 years and 11 months and 22 years in prison, respectively, for racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit murder in aid of ...

The gang received approval for the hit from leaders in El Salvador.The group began surveilling the victim and planned different ways to kill him, said the DOJ. "Defendants engaged in murder and other ...

Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman appeared at a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill focused on crime, illegal immigration ...

Southeast Queens gang leader Junior Zelaya Canales pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court on Monday for his role in three ...

El Salvador's gang-busting strongman President Nayib Bukele has set out on a new mission: to kickstart his country's ...

A Queens-based regional leader of the 18th Street Gang pleaded guilty to federal racketeering conspiracy charges in ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deported Carlos Alfredo Montano-Velasquez, a 32-year-old Salvadoran ...

Two Santa Cruz men who are reputed members of the of the infamous La Mara Salvatrucha gang, also known as MS-13, have been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.