Authorities in Panama say they have broken up a major cocaine trafficking organization that moved drugs from Colombia to Panama and then north to Mexico and the United States

Four of 26 suspects are wanted for extradition to U.S.

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

Juan Ortiz Lopez, who is wanted in Florida on cocaine trafficking charges, is arrested at a house in Quetzaltenango

A senior Interior Ministry official who recently headed Bolivia’s counternarcotics police has been arrested in Panama and sent to the United States to face charges that he ran a cocaine trafficking ring

The Obama administration is considering an anti-drug aid plan exclusively for Central America, a U.S. official said Wednesday

Panamanian authorities seized 1,025 kilos (2,257 pounds) of cocaine in the Caribbean province of Colon, 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of the capital, a senior prosecutor said Tuesday

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

Forty people linked to the neo-paramilitary drug trafficking group "Los Urabeños" have been captured by Colombian authorities in collaboration with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), said Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera.