Infamous Guatemalan army unit confronts new foes
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POPTUN, Guatemala  - A picture of a fierce-looking gorilla emblazoned with the words "Welcome to Hell" once hung over the entrance of Central America's toughest military training center, the notorious "Kaibil" school in Guatemala.
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FLORENCIA, Colombia  - When spies spotted a guerrilla chief camped on a jungle riverbank one afternoon late last year, Colombia's army quickly turned to U.S. soldiers to help plan his capture.
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The second major attack on American forces this month underscored the grim situation in a militant stronghold.
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As Bush heads to the region, his key allies in Guatemala and El Salvador are reeling from gangland style killings that many believe are related to drug smuggling and corruption
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WASHINGTON -- The messianic Soldiers of Heaven militia that fought US and Iraqi troops in one of the fiercest battles of the war Sunday is among the more than two dozen extremist militias operating across Iraq that are fast becoming a powerful, and hidden, new enemy.
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In a Sunni stronghold just south of Baghdad, the U.S. military has been persuading militants to switch sides. But itâs not at all clear that the enemyâs new enemy is really a friend.
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As rebels, soldiers and pro-government militia fight on, civilians pay the price
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Once, drug gangs mostly fought each other, now they're joining forces to wage open warfare on the government
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Gun battles between federal forces and drug-cartel members equipped with rocket-propelled-grenade launchers may give the impression that there is a war in Mexico.
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Four Guatemalans are held in connection with the murders of three Salvadorean politicians in Guatemala City.
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NEBAJ, Guatemala -- A decade after the conclusion of the long civil war that ravaged this Central American nation, Guatemalans are literally trying to dig up their past.
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MEXICO CITY -- Deadly assaults on two police stations by criminals wearing soldiers' uniforms have raised the pressure on Mexico's new president, Felipe Calder&#xF3;n, to demonstrate that his much flaunted military-led crackdown on organized crime can stand up to the nation's powerful drug cartels.
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The leftist rebels behind huge pipeline bombings in Mexico this week are from a small guerrilla group held together by family ties that has long personal and political grudges against the government.
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Many Andar residents are anxious about security and resentful of the government and the police, whom they accused of preying on the people.
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In Baquba, local Sunni residents, including a number of former insurgents, have emerged as a linchpin of the American strategy.
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Tribal animosities are flaring anew just as security forces seem stretched too thin to react.
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An exhibit in Guatemala City is trying to prompt a long-overdue national dialogue between the country's dominant nonindigenous population and the Maya.