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American missionaries trapped in Haiti pleaded for rescue on Tuesday, reporting constant gunfire and corpses in the streets.

The government of El Salvador announced this week that it will serve as one of several venues for the 2024 Gamergy international video game e-sports event in October.

A New York ex-convict turned criminal justice reform activist is facing murder charges after the dismembered body of another former inmate was discovered in an apartment.

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, issued what he described as a “warning to a friend” during his address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday evening, asking Americans to fight “global elites” who “hate our success and fear yours.”

Venezuela’s socialist regime allowed Héctor “the Child” Guerrero, the leader of Venezuela’s largest mega-gang, the Tren de Aragua (“Aragua Train”), to escape prison months before the organized crime syndicate established a criminal presence in New York City.

Security authorities in Ecuador detained over 6,600 individuals in the first month since the country declared its operation to crush gang violence a formal “internal armed conflict.”

Courts in El Salvador began conducting mass trials of imprisoned gang members on Thursday, starting with one processing nearly 500 alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang.

Three explosions rocked Stockholm over just a four-day period as Sweden is coming off a record year for gang-related bombings.

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, declared himself the winner of a second five-year term in office on Sunday with an overwhelming 85 percent of the vote, declaring the nation’s opposition “pulverized” and El Salvador the world’s first democratic one-party system.

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.