For nearly three years, Hondurans have been living under a state of exception the government implemented to decrease gang ...

Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or ...

Alegria, a mother of four from Honduras, came to the U.S. 12 years ago, saying gang members targeted her children. Today, she ...

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A 21-year-old American woman was detained in Honduras, authorities said on Wednesday, for allegedly heading a faction of the Mara Barrio 18, one of the gangs responsible for a ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Trump administration Tuesday designated the Barrio 18 gang as a foreign terrorist organization, ...

Three times, Mariana* stood up to the violent gangs that took over her once-idyllic hometown in Honduras. “The first time, they laughed with scorn,” she said. “The second time, they threatened to kill ...

For Laura,* tragedy had threatened to become the defining theme of her life, with one horrifying incident leading to another in a seemingly unending cycle of violence and displacement. So it was when ...

Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo has accepted the resignations of three top security officials. This follows the escape of 20 gang members from prison, revealed on Sunday. The prisoners, all ...