Gangs in Haiti Try to Seize Main Airport After Thousands Escape Prisons
The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack occurred and had no passengers on site, but gang members exchanged gunfire with police and soldiers.
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Ecuador: Gang Violence Will Not Prevail, Bishops Say
President Daniel Noboa decreed a state of emergency Jan. 8.
Bishops Express Pain Over Killing of More Than 30 Police Officers This Year in Colombia
The officers have been victims of the so-called “pistol plan” of the criminal organization known as the Clan del Golfo.
U.S. Bishops: Government’s Deportation of Central Americans Could Send Many to Their Deaths
The federal government is rounding up women and children who fled the drug and gang violence to return them to their home countries.
‘Angel’ of Guatemala Chooses Death Over Gang Violence
When 12-year-old Ángel Ariel Escalante Pérez was confronted by gang members demanding that he kill a bus driver in Guatemala, he said, “No.”
