Bolivia Close Gaps Exploited by Organized Crime
By: Guillermo Saavedra/Diálogo Published: October 30th, 2026 Officers with Bolivia’s FELCN guard the border with Brazil in Guayaramerín, Bolivia, August 13, 2026, during the launch of the Secure Borders plan. The initiative strengthens intelligence sharing and coordinated operations between Bolivia and Brazil to combat transnational criminal organizations operating on both sides of the border. (Photo: Aizar Raldes/AFP) Key Points Bolivia and Brazil launched the Secure Borders
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Argentina Designates Criminal Groups As Terrorist Organizations
By Almudena Calatrava October 23, 2026 President Donald Trump, center left, shakes hands with Javier Milei, President of Argentina, during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,File) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina has designated five Latin American criminal and guerrilla groups, including Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, as terrorist organizations, aligning itself with the security polici
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Criminal networks threaten the Amazon
By Steven Grattan October 18, 2026 Credit: AP BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are taking their fight against illegal mining, drug trafficking and deforestation to a United Nations conference in Vienna starting Monday. More than a dozen Indigenous representatives from Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador are participating in the Oct. 19-23 U.N. conference on transnational organized crime, known as COP13. The leaders want governments to tackle th
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Oct 23
Trinidad police bill threatens press freedom
By Natricia Duncan October 20, 2026 Journalists call for urgent amendment to special operations bill, which increases police search and seizure powers Officers in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. Photograph: Miami Herald/Tribune News Service/Getty Images Journalists in Trinidad and Tobago have called for an urgent amendment to a sweeping new bill that increases police powers of search and seizure, which they argue threatens the country’s much-vaunted freedom
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Oct 20
University March Against Milei Ends In Police Crackdown
By Javier Lorca October 16, 2026 Professors, students and university officials demonstrated across the country to demand that the far-right president comply with the law on funding public universities. Police use their weapons against students this Thursday. PEDRO LAZARO FERNANDEZ (REUTERS) Six congressional votes approved and subsequently reaffirmed the university funding law. Four court rulings ordered the government to comply with the legislation. Yet the government of Jav
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Oct 19
New tool reveals siege on Indigenous lands in Bolivia
Published: October 15th, 2026 Author: Nelfi Fernández Reyes In the Los Ángeles community within the Monte Verde territory in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department, the Indigenous Chiquitano people confront and evict the invaders. Image by Edy Yobanny Velasco. Key Points: Nine out of every 10 hectares (22 of every 25 acres) of forest lost in Amazonian Indigenous territories in Bolivia were cleared illegally, new data analysis suggests. Between 2003 and 2023, more than 186,500 hectar
A Bolsonaro Win Would Nearly Complete Trump’s Latin America Map
By Jack Nicas October 5, 2026 Flávio Bolsonaro, now the favorite to win Brazil’s presidency, would give President Trump a critical new ally in Latin America, particularly on security. Credit: The New York Times Over the last 18 months, right-wing candidates in Latin America have won the last seven presidential elections. Now the region’s biggest nation might be weeks away. On Sunday, Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of Brazil’s former hard-right president Jair Bolsonaro, received th
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Oct 8
Bolivia detains attorney general, government ministry says
By Reuters October 1, 2026 Oct 1 (Reuters) - Bolivia's Attorney General Roger Mariaca has been arrested two days after the United States revoked his visa and accused him of accepting bribes to facilitate drug trafficking, the country's Interior Minister Marco Antonio Oviedo said on Thursday. Mariaca was arrested along with 13 other people on Wednesday as part of an operation targeting what authorities described as a “criminal organization” embedded within the judiciary and
Middle East Eye
Oct 8
Argentina To Host US Unit To Fight Drug Trafficking
Buenos Aires Herald October 6, 2026 The Security Minister said Washington approved funding of US$13.3, 10 times the current resources allocated to bilateral cooperation. Credit: Buenos Aires Herald The United States created a regional unit based in Argentina to fight drug trafficking and organized crime, Argentine Security Minister Alejandra Monteoliva announced Monday. The unit falls under the purview of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law E
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Oct 6
U.S. Troops Fighting The Drug War in Ecuador
By Ryan Dubé 25 September 2026 U.S. Military Personnel and Ecuadorian Police in an operation to dismantle a gang in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Thursday. (© EPA/Shutterstock) Ecuador’s security forces carried out a series of raids this week around the country, killing three alleged drug traffickers and capturing dozens more. At their side was a contingent of heavily armed American soldiers. The operations, which were announced by the Ecuadorean government, signal a deepening of U.
Peru faces human rights court over Indigenous protections
Peru faces human rights court over protections for isolated Indigenous Peoples By Steven Grattan (AP) September 25, 2026 Peru faces a regional human rights court over allegations it failed to protect isolated Indigenous peoples in the Amazon from logging and other activities Credit: ABC News PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Peru faced the final day of a landmark hearing before a regional human rights court Friday over allegations that it failed to protect I
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Sep 29
Bolivian indigenous communities protest illegal mining
Erbol September 18, 2026 Dredges operating in the Madre de Dios River, territory of TIM II. Photo: CEJIS. The lack of a resolution to the preventive environmental action presented by the Multiethnic Indigenous Territory TIM II and the Tacana, Kabineña and Ese Ejja captaincies in the face of mining pollution led the Central Indigenous of the Original Peoples of the Amazon of Pando (CIPOAP) to declare a state of emergency and give a deadline until September 30 for mining operat
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