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Gangs

July 2024

  • A memorial for best friends Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas

    MS-13 leader pleads guilty in New York case involving eight murders

  • Police search a suspected drug dealer

    New law on child exploitation by drug dealers in Labour crime crackdown

June 2024

  • A young girl sobs among a crowd of mourners, some holding memorial photographs

    Bloodlines
    ‘The gangs never used to kill children, now they do’: how cocaine created Argentina’s first narcocity

    The river port of Rosario lies on the route between cocaine-producing Peru and Bolivia and lucrative markets in Europe. The result is terrifying violence and addiction

May 2024

  • A smiling young couple embrace each other.

    Haiti gang kills US politician’s missionary daughter and her husband

    Missouri state representative Ben Baker’s daughter and her husband were reportedly ambushed when leaving a church

April 2024

  • Sosa Henkoma. Photo by Linda Nylind. 27/10/2023.

    Today in Focus
    The devil walking on Earth – part 2

    Annie Kelly reports on the story of Sosa Henkoma, who was exploited by drug gangs as a child and now mentors young people at risk of gang violence
  • Sosa Henkoma (Photo by Linda Nylind/The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    The devil walking on Earth – part 1

    Annie Kelly reports on the story of Sosa Henkoma, who was exploited by drug gangs as a child and now mentors young people at risk of gang violence
  • A man runs for cover as riot police launch tear gas in an effort to remove street vendors in the Champs de Mars area, next to the National Palace, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

    Top UN expert warns of deteriorating situation in Haiti: ‘It’s apocalyptic’

    Human rights expert voices alarm, saying country is fast moving towards becoming ‘like Somalia in the worst of its times’

March 2024

  • Antonio Salazar-Hobson at Buena Vista Park in San Francisco, California.

    How we survive
    At four, I was kidnapped and sex-trafficked for years. Now I fight for the powerless – and win every case

    After he was snatched, Antonio Salazar-Hobson didn’t see his family for 24 years. His desire to return to his mother, and his discovery of a higher purpose, helped him navigate a path through hell
  • A white man wearing a hat, sunglasses, jeans and bulletproof vest walks through a parking lot carrying a machine gun pointed at the ground.

    Officials say two deaths possibly linked to escaped Idaho inmate

    James L Mauney was walking his dogs when he was shot and killed, and Gerald Don Henderson was found dead outside his cabin
  • People flee their homes in Port-au-Prince as police confront armed gangs.

    The Guardian view on Haiti’s state of emergency: don’t look for easy fixes

    Editorial: With gangs threatening civil war, widespread violence and no elected officials, the country faces an unprecedented crisis. Its people must be heard

February 2024

  • Burning tyre in street

    Haiti’s capital paralysed by gunfire as gang boss threatens police chief and ministers

  • Roberto Saviano

    The world is hungry for cocaine and happy to buy it. But think of the ravaged countries that pay the price

    Roberto Saviano

January 2024

  • Shantelle Conaghan washes reporter Eve Livingston’s hair at the G20 youth centre in Glasgow

    Progress on ending youth violence in Glasgow slows due to lack of safe spaces

  • Police at the scene where César Suárez was shot dead on Wednesday.

    Ecuador prosecutor investigating gang attack on TV station shot and killed

  • Freelance journalist Dan Collyns explains why Ecuador has experienced a sudden surge in violence that has led to thousands fleeing the country

    3:49

    How drug gangs brought bloodshed to Ecuador – video explainer

  • Ecuador police arrest several armed men who broke into the set of a public television channel

    Armed gangs and prison breaks: how Ecuador was plunged into chaos and bloodshed

  • First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: Why masked gang members stormed an Ecuadorian TV station

  • Armed gang storms Ecuador TV station as state of ‘internal armed conflict’ declared

December 2023

  • Sosa Henkoma portrait

    How we survive
    I was trafficked by drug gangs as a child, shot at and stabbed 11 times. Here is how I escaped

    Sosa Henkoma was eight when he ran away from violence at home - and just 12 when he was given his first gun. He describes how fatherhood, therapy and sheer luck saved him

November 2023

  • Swedish police officers and cars at the scene of a shooting.

    How gang violence took hold of Sweden – in five charts

    Scandinavian country has second highest gun crime death rate in Europe, with poverty and inequality among driving factors
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