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Lisa Lambert BBC News, Washington EPA Security officers taking control of Tocoron prison in 2023 In September 2023, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sent 11,000 soldiers to storm the Tocorón Prison in the northern state of Aragua. But they were not dispatched to quell a riot. The troops were taking back control of the jail from…
Video shows alleged gang members deported by US in El Salvador mega-jail A US federal judge has questioned why the Trump administration failed to obey his order halting the deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members. James Boasberg, the top federal judge in Washington DC, ordered deportation flights to be turned around on Saturday night. White…
On Saturday, the US government put hundreds of Venezuelans on planes which swiftly took off for the alleged gang members’ ultimate destination: a mega-prison in El Salvador. A judge then ordered the planes back, telling the government’s lawyers verbally that they should do so “however that’s accomplished — whether turning around the plane or not.”…
At least 12 people have been killed after a plane crashed off the Caribbean coast of Honduras on Monday evening, officials said. The aircraft – operated by Honduran airline Lanhsa – crashed into the sea within a minute of take-off from the island of Roatán. The Honduran national police and fire department separately said five…
Ione Wells South America correspondent, Quito Reuters Most of the world’s cocaine is trafficked through Ecuador’s ports Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has told the BBC he wants US, European and Brazilian armies to join his “war” against criminal gangs. He added he wants US President Donald Trump to designate Ecuadorean gangs as terrorist groups, as…
An Italian fugitive accused of having coordinated the shipment of large cocaine cargoes from Latin America to Europe has been arrested in Colombia. Colombia’s national police chief described Emanuele Gregorini, who is also known as “Dollarino”, as “the head of the Italian mafia Latin America”. He said Gregorini had been tracked down to an apartment…
Nicole Kolster and Gustavo Ocando Alex BBC Mundo in Venezuela Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington DC Nicole Kolster/BBC Mundo Myrelis Casique López insists her son is innocent and not a gang member In a poor neighbourhood of the Venezuelan city of Maracay, the mother of 24-year-old Francisco José García Casique was waiting for him…
Owen Pinnell BBC Eye Investigations BBC An iridescent film could be seen on the water surface in some places the BBC visited Colombian energy giant Ecopetrol has polluted hundreds of sites with oil, including water sources and biodiverse wetlands, the BBC World Service has found. Data leaked by a former employee reveals more than 800…
Rachel Looker BBC News, Washington DC Defensa Civil Dominicana The family of a missing University of Pittsburgh student has asked the Dominican Republic’s national police that she be declared dead. Sudiksha Konanki, 20, disappeared on spring break while in the Dominican Republic. She was last seen at a hotel in early March. The Dominican Republic’s…
Following two days of sometimes violent protests, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo has withdrawn a decree which would have made car insurance compulsory in the Central American nation. Under the new law, owners of cars, lorries, buses and motorbikes would have been required to take out insurance to cover harm caused to others in the event…
