The Mexican drug cartel’s recent turf war over trafficking routes has killed dozens of people and displaced tens of thousands ...

EL MUNDO attends the training of the volunteers of the 'Latin battalion'. "I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe in the ...

However, this war against the state took its toll on the Medellín Cartel. Escobar’s key ally, Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, alias “El Mexicano,” was shot and killed by the Colombian police in mid-December ...

Colombian president Gustavo Petro warned on Monday that his nation’s military will take offensive actions against the National Liberation Army after the rebels, known as the ELN, unleashed a wave of ...

For many years, Ecuador had one of the lowest homicide rates in Latin America – an indicator of low gang activity. As a result, it hadn’t developed a robust police and military response to gangs.

Ecuador's dueling presidential hopefuls made a last-ditch pitch to late-deciding voters Thursday, wrapping a bitter campaign ...

Polls opened Sunday across Ecuador in a presidential election amid a rise in cartel turf wars and soaring murder rates. The ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Gustavo Petro ... “The ELN has chosen the path of war, and that’s what they will get,” Petro wrote in a message on X, in which he accused the rebels ...

“The ELN has chosen the path of war, and that’s what they will get ... their methods to those of Pablo Escobar, the infamous cartel leader who bombed government buildings and murdered ...

The ELN has in recent days also clashed with the Gulf Clan, the largest drug cartel in the world’s biggest cocaine producer, leaving at least nine dead in a different part of northern Colombia.