Emily Green
Adventure or Poverty Porn? Company Under Fire for $4,000 Hike Near Deadly Migrant Route
A recent documentary has sparked controversy about a two-week trek being offered in the Darién Gap, which is also home to a dangerous migrant route.
Security Camera Footage Shows Mexican Soldiers Executing Cartel Members and Trying to Cover it Up: Reports
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has given the military more power to fight cartels, claimed the disturbing video is an "isolated" incident.
Prisoners are Being Tortured to Death in El Salvador’s Prisons
A new report describes what goes on within the Central American nation's prisons, which now hold 2 percent of the adult population.
Mexican Cartels Are Turning Once-Peaceful Ecuador Into a Narco War Zone
“We are fighting to contain this sickness that is threatening our country,” said an official of the violence created by Mexico's cartels in Ecuador.
‘They Only Listen to Us When We Die’: Migrants Killed in Fire Were Locked in Jail Cell
The blaze in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez killed 40 people and injured dozens more.
Nearly 40 Migrants Died Trapped Inside a Burning Detention Center
The Mexican government said that migrants inside started the fire.
What It’s Like Crossing the World's Deadliest Jungle
Sandwiched between Panama and Colombia, the Darién Gap is a necessary risk for thousands of migrants trying to reach the U.S.-Mexico border.
Cops Just Seized Nearly 9 Tons of Cocaine Hidden in Bananas
The massive seizure in the port of Guayaquil, Ecuador was found in a single shipping container of bananas.
An Elite Afghan Soldier Braved the World's Deadliest Jungle Trying to Reach the US
A growing number of Afghan and Chinese migrants are braving the Darién Gap to reach the U.S. An Afghan colonel is among them.
33 Migrants Who Survived the Darien Gap Were Killed in a Bus Crash in Costa Rica
After making it through 66-mile-long strip of jungle and mountains, the migrants were killed when their driver lost control of the bus.
Brazil’s ‘Trump of the Tropics’ Stoked Riots—Then He Fled to Florida
Former president Jair Bolsonaro was in Orlando when Brazil's National Congress and Supreme Court were stormed by protestors in an incident broadly compared to the Jan.6 2021 Capitol riots in the US.
El Chapo's Son ‘El Bebe’ Is the Weakest Link in the Sinaloa Cartel
Ovidio Guzmán, who was arrested Jan. 5, is one of the four “Chapitos” now in charge of a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel.