It was always Puerto Rico’s most famous slum, and the most picturesque, but the extent of criminality in La Perla apparently extended far beyond the colonial walls and cobblestone streets of Old San Juan

Guatemala's government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents

Mexican federal police say they have detained a regional leader of the Zetas drug gang who trafficked drugs from the Dominican Republic and Panama to the United States

Terrified holidaymakers were caught up in an intense gunfight between a Rio de Janeiro drugs gang and police on Saturday, during which gang members invaded a luxury hotel and took 35 people hostage before releasing them after a three-hour standoff.

Roughly 500 U.S. drug agents and Puerto Rican police swept through public housing projects at dawn Friday on the island’s west coast in what officials described as the largest operation of its kind in the American territory

Police in Texas have seized a cache of weapons allegedly being smuggled to drug gangs in Mexico. The haul, in Laredo on the US-Mexico border, included assault rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition