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In recent months the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang has been placed front and center in the national U.S. immigration…
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In recent months the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang has been placed front and center in the national U.S. immigration…
This commentary is a joint publication between the Costa Rican Association for Research and Intervention in Drugs (Asociación Costarricense para…
The Trump administration’s 2018 budget request to Congress would slash assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean by 35 percent…
In the vast areas of Colombia’s countryside where evidence of government is scarce, you can see the bright green bushes…
Get Beyond the Wall Most measures of security at the U.S.-Mexico border have improved dramatically since the 1990s. Still, border…
The Department of Homeland Security has started to put the wheels in motion on President Trump’s executive orders on immigration—and…
The Trump administration’s likely secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has declared an intention “to review the details of Colombia’s recent…
On November 15, 2016, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras launched a new, joint task force. The Tri-National Anti-Gang Task Force…
Although the United States and Cuba have already turned a page on an era defined by the Cold War, the…
The prison population throughout Latin America has been growing steadily for the past few decades. Harsh drug laws and anti-gang…
In a major shift promoted by the Obama administration, the United States federal government is poised to end its use…
Documents Show Special Ops Training in the Region Tripled From 2007 to 2014 The U.S. military’s most elite forces have…
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