El Salvador will hold an unprecedented presidential election on Sunday as polls suggest President Nayib Bukele will win reelection by an overwhelming landslide despite the country’s Constitution explicitly forbidding presidents from seeking more than one term.
Prosecutor César Suárez was assassinated on Wednesday evening, reportedly shot over 20 times while leaving his office in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Penitentiary authorities in Ecuador confirmed on Thursday that violent gangs are holding at least 178 people hostage across seven prisons in the country as part of a wider war between the nation’s organized crime syndicates and the newly minted government of President Daniel Noboa.
Ecuador will soon begin deporting 1,500 foreign prison inmates in an effort to reduce prison overcrowding.
The government of Ecuador formally declared an emerging gang war in the country an “internal armed conflict” on Wednesday, vowing to curtail the deadly violence that dramatically intensified the day before.
A group of armed hooded men stormed the premises of TC Television, a new network headquartered in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Tuesday, kidnapping all the personnel present in the building.
President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency in response to the disappearance of José Adolfo Macías, Ecuador’s “most-wanted criminal.”
President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa announced on Thursday that the South American country will soon begin construction of two maximum-security prisons in the same style as the “mega-prison” built by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in 2023.
The 17-year-old suspect in last week’s armed carjacking of a female FBI agent in Washington, DC, has been found and arrested, police said.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Colombia, Peru, Chile, and other Latin American countries are on high alert after the escape of Héctor “the Child” Guerrero, the leader of Venezuela’s largest known criminal organization, the Tren de Aragua (“Aragua Train”).
Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, used his U.N. address to assert his country’s “right to be correct” on how to fight gangs.
El Salvador’s Congress approved reforms that will allow courts to conduct mass trials for tens of thousands of detained gang suspects.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele claimed his country marked 365 non-consecutive days without homicides since he took office in 2019.
The Haitian police announced on Monday that residents of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, overpowered a group of suspected gang members and executed them on the spot by hanging them and setting them on fire.
Marion County, Florida, Sheriff Billy Woods held a press conference describing the arrest of two suspects in connection with the shooting deaths of three teenagers in rural Marion County.
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, declared on Tuesday the arraignment of former American President Donald Trump meant the United States’ ability to pressure other countries to improve their own democracies was “gone.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) traveled to El Salvador this weekend to meet with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, criticizing President Joe Biden for “alienating” Central American and other allies with combative policies.
The Swedish Supreme Court has ruled to uphold the disbarring of a female lawyer who maintained a romantic relationship with a known gang leader she represented as a public defender.
A man who lost his son to a fatal shooting in 2021 has blamed structural racism and Swedes for not keeping residents of his community safe.
A group of three foreigners were arrested in Rome after allegedly using dating apps to lure homosexual men to areas where they ambushed and robbed them.
A former Honduran national police leader called this week for his country’s government to send law enforcement officials to neighboring El Salvador to learn how to crack down on gang violence.
Several cars and a building in the Swedish city of Malmo were damaged in an apparent bombing as gang violence continues across the country.
Ten people have been arrested in the Stockholm region this week following two shootings that took place within an hour of each other on Tuesday evening.
Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele clashed on Wednesday after Petro, a former member of a Marxist terror guerrilla, called Bukele’s “mega prison” for alleged gang members a “concentration camp.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) change to asylum rules that allow foreign nationals, claiming to be fleeing gang violence, to seek refuge in the United States even as Americans in some major cities live with higher crime rates.
Sweden has announced it will be studying the effect of criminality on politics as criminal pressure is becoming a growing problem.
The Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, which has been fiercely critical of President Nayib Bukele and his imposition of de facto martial law to combat gang violence, revealed in an extensive report this weekend that gangs have largely disappeared from many parts of the country, their members imprisoned or abroad fleeing from authorities.
A group of people, said to speak little Swedish and linked to criminal gangs, ousted a local politician who had been tough on gang crime.
Around 20 per cent of Swedes have claimed that they would feel safer in their country if they had the right to self-defence with a firearm.
An explosion took place in an area in the Stockholm region Thursday morning, marking the 13th explosion Sweden has seen in 26 days.
A teenager has been charged with the death of politician Frederik Andersson outside a gym in Stockholm last year during a gang shooting.
The Stockholm region, a formerly relatively peaceful area, saw five major violent incidents Thursday, including bombings and shootings.
The Swedish government has announced it will be developing a national strategy to tackle surging levels of gang crime.
A man tied to criminal gangs was shot dead in a notroious Swedish no-go zone on Christmas day, as the country sets a fatal shootings record.
Chicago Police Department chief of detectives Brendan Deenihan says seven-year-old Akeem Briscoe was fatally shot as a result of “group on group violence” in an alley near his home.
A man in Marseille is just the latest victim of gun violence as the city suffers gang violence executed with illegal Kalashnikov rifles.
The mother of a 12-year-old shot and killed in the crossfire of a Swedish gang conflict confronted Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, demanding the next Swedish government do more to tackle the growing violence.
Just weeks before next month’s national election, Sweden has already matched its yearly record of fatal shootings.
Dutch prosecutors arrested a 27-year-old Polish man suspected of organizing the killing of well-known crime reporter Peter R. de Vries.
A bombshell report published Tuesday by the bilingual conservative outlet El American accused the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, of cutting a deal with the nation’s biggest gangs to falsify homicide statistics that abruptly ended when Bukele ordered a spree of arrests against prominent gang members.
