Short lifespan in Rio drug gangs
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One-fifth of youths in Rio de Janeiro's drug gangs are killed within two years, mostly by police, a study says.
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LOS ANGELES -- In a murderous quest aimed at "cleansing" their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles County's most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation has found.
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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia -- Pedro Luis Daza, a 40-year-old telecommunications technician, dressed up as guerrilla leader Simon Trinidad, who was recently extradited to the United States. One of his two brothers masqueraded as a US Army adviser in Colombia, complete with a realistic-looking rifle. The other posed as a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebel who was recently captured in Venezuela.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - With time running out, Nazi  hunters are making a new push to track down aging war criminals  still living in South America, a region notorious for opening  its doors to those responsible for the Holocaust.
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Slum child, street boy, latrine   cleaner, thief, drug addict; Sammy Gitau nearly died of a   cocaine overdose and was twice beaten almost to death by mobs.
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When machinegun-toting hit men fought a bloody battle with police and troops around the Mexico town of Cananea that left 23 dead in May, it at first seemed to be the latest chapter in a very Mexican drug war.
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During some of the bloodiest years of the drug wars of the 1980s, crack was seen as far more dangerous than powdered cocaine, and that perception was written into the sentencing laws. But now that notion is under attack like never before.
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NEW YORK  - People with alcohol problems   who remain abstinent within a year of first seeking treatment   are more likely to be alive fifteen years later than those who   don't fare as well early in treatment, a new study shows.
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Many cocaine swallowers have gone belly-up with the introduction of new anti-drug trafficking strategies.
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Nine are shot dead in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown, as police battle drugs gangs and militia groups.
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Police shoot dead one of Rio de Janeiro's most notorious suspected drug barons, ending a year-long manhunt.
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As America's appetite for coke fades, Guinea Bissau has become a key transit point for Colombia's narco-traffickers with an eye on the growing European market
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SABANA CRESPO, Colombia  - Coca leaves, the raw  material of cocaine, should speed you up and give you a buzz.  But you'd never know it to look at the Arhuaco Indians of  Colombia's Sierra Nevada, who must be strong contenders for the  title of World's Most Laid-Back People.
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A new film is drawing attention to Rio de Janeiroâs violent and feared elite anti-trafficking police force, the BOPE.
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People in their 50s and 60s who get regular exercise are about 35 percent less likely to die within eight years than inactive people in the same age group, says a University of Michigan Health System study.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Mexican drug gangs are  forcing Indian tribes to abandon their traditional crops and  grow marijuana and heroin poppies, according to a study  released on Tuesday.
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LA LOMA, Colombia -- In 2001, paramilitary hit men pulled three union leaders off buses in this roasting-hot swath of northeastern Colombia and shot them dead. In a shadowy conflict where gunmen often kill union activists, the slaying generated little attention, even as the dead men's families ac...