Residents point to bullet holes and boarded windows and say the situation now feels “just like Venezuela.” Migrants who fled violence say gangs followed them into American cities. With landlords gone and no authority inside the buildings,

One year since the start of President Trump’s second term, DHS has arrested 7,000 illegal immigrant gang members, comprising a rogue’s gallery of murderers, kidnappers and thieves who

The killings occurred a day after gang member inmates took 46 people hostage in three prisons across the country, officials said.

SAN DIEGO (AP) – The deadliest prison blaze in a century has drawn attention to an unfortunate U.S. export to Central America: street gangs. Prisons in Honduras and elsewhere in Central America are teeming with inmates who belong to gangs that have their ...

The alert comes as gangs have attacked Guatemalan police after seizing control of three prisons in coordinated riots, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Over 2.9 million international visitors traveled to Guatemala between January and November 2025, according to the Guatemalan Tourism Institute.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The United States is designating two Ecuadorian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, marking the Trump administration’s latest step to target criminal cartels in Latin America. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the ...

Michael W. Waters, founding pastor of Joy Tabernacle A.M.E. in Dallas, Texas, writes at the Huffington Post that it is incumbent upon churches, among others, to help turn the tide of youth gang violence before it eliminates an entire generation. He says it ...