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Ecuador’s military was sent in to seize control of the country’s prisons last month after two major gang leaders escaped and criminal groups quickly set off a nationwide revolt that paralyzed the country. In Brazil last week, two inmates with connections to a major gang became the first to escape from one of the nation’s five maximum-security federal prisons, officials said. Officials in Colombia have declared an emergency in its prisons after two guards were killed and seve...

Despite more than a decade behind bars, the kingpin was filmed in music videos and ran his drug trafficking operation from a prison bunker. Now, he’s missing.

The PCC – First Capital Command – arose in the country’s notoriously brutal penitentiaries 30 years ago but now controls a billion-dollar drug trade supplying much of Europe’s cocaine

Most Americans see southern neighbor Mexico as having at least a friendly relationship with the U.S. A sizable majority also say Mexico and the U.S. should be responsible for stopping

Most Americans see southern neighbor Mexico as having at least a friendly relationship with the U.S. A sizable majority also say Mexico and the U.S. should be responsible for stopping

A joint University of Chicago and Associated Press survey polled 1,191 people across the United States about views on Mexico and Mexicans.

Most Americans see southern neighbor Mexico as having at least a friendly relationship with the U.S. A sizable majority also say Mexico and the U.S. should be responsible for stopping drug trafficking. A new poll from the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also finds that U.S. adults are more likely to have an unfavorable view of Mexico’s leadership than a favorable one. The poll comes as sever...

Most Americans see southern neighbor Mexico as having at least a friendly relationship with the U.S. A sizable majority also say Mexico and the U.S. should be responsible for stopping drug trafficking. A new poll from the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also finds that U.S. adults are more likely to have an unfavorable view of Mexico’s leadership than a favorable one. The poll comes as sever...

Most Americans see southern neighbor Mexico as having at least a friendly relationship with the U.S. A sizable majority also say Mexico and the U.S. should be responsible for stopping

MIAMI -- Most people in the U.S. see Mexico as an essential partner to stop drug trafficking and illegal border crossings, even as they express mixed views of Mexicos government, according to a new poll.