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More than 2.3 million Venezuelans – roughly 7 percent of the entire population – have fled the country’s political...
Wars are on the rebound. There are twice as many civil conflicts today, for example, as there were in...
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Cristian Sabino was sitting on a plastic chair by this beach resort’s central market when a gunman walked...
Though I’ve been lucky to have been insulated from gun violence most of my life, it was at the core of...
Sold from vending machines in Pennsylvania, feed depots in Nevada, pharmacies in Georgia and jewelry...
The planet is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed, generating enormous social, economic and climatic...
ATT Monitor is a project of Control Arms. The project was launched in January 2015 with the support of...
On this edition of "Deep South" Ilona Szabo de Carvalho, Executive Director of Instituto Igarapé, discusses...
n one of the most lawless corners of Brazil, the former paratrooper and leading presidential candidate...
Mali experienced a rare glimmer of stability this month. Although voter turnout was dampened by security...
Canada recently became the second country — and the first Group of Seven country — to legalize marijuana for...
BANGUI, Central African Republic—To locals, he is known simply as “Force.” The moniker is appropriate....
This ugly tale of domestic abuse is related from various angles by the security cameras in a residential...
Homicide rates in Mexico and Brazil are climbing even further. Yet Britain could learn from listening...
Data show a 3% increase of people killed in 2017 from the previous year; rapes also rose 8% to 60,01...
Démocraties fatiguées 3|6. La montée de l’autoritarisme est inquiétante, mais les libertés continuent...
A shadow hangs over Toronto after Sunday’s shooting on the Danforth. The recent killing spree follows...
Before 2018 is over, more than half the population of Latin America will have elected a new presiden...
As she began to run afoul of a street gang in her working-class neighborhood in Medellín, Lina Carmona...
Nicaragua’s political crisis is spinning out of control, with political tensions rising to levels not...
Overall, the past quarter-century has been an era of progress for the region: Democracy has spread.
In a murder-plagued Brazilian city, a legislator pushes against popular clamor for hard-line enforce...
The murder epidemic in Latin America is an appalling tragedy. But it is also an incredibly complex public...
Nicaragua is taking a dangerous turn toward civil war. Since protests and riots began three months ago,...
There are ominous signs of growing turbulence around the world. The number of civil wars has doubled since...
This article explores the participation of uniformed personnel (military and police) from Latin America...
En Argentina y México, las leyes han sido reformadas con miras a introducir el principio del “donante...
Latin America accounts for 8% of the world’s population, but 33% of its homicides. A history of military...
Most technologies are dual use: take the case of digital technologies that are fundamentally transforming...
Two young men are lying face down on the green forest floor. His friend, he says, is the one in the dark...
The global migrant crisis is transcending borders, defining itself as one of the most important issues...
To Robert Muggah cities are places where people connect, feel safe and live. Places where people thrive and...
A new website that lets people delve into data on the world's cities has been launched.
Dr Robert...
Africans are moving to the city. Already home to the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population,...
Furious at corrupt politicians and fearful of deteriorating security, many Brazilians are calling for...
Did President Trump manufacture a border crisis where none existed?
A new website that lets people delve into data on the world's cities has been launched.
Dr Robert...
The images of children being forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border are shocking...
The US Attorney General claims these separations are justified by the Bible and will deter illegal immigration,...
Today’s cities are on the frontline of crime and terrorism. While some of them are clearly more at risk than...
The risk of cyber crime is growing in Brazil amid a debate over the balance between security and privacy....
En Foro Global, Genaro Lozano entrevista a Robert Muggah, colaborador de Americas Quarterly y cofundador...
Millennials are an ethical bunch. Veganism is on the rise, primarily down to the environmental impact...
Rising homicide rates are damaging Brazil's economy and leading to skyrocketing public security cost...
Report finds that crime has worsened and lays out the cost over two decades
A new study shows that violence costs Brazil more than 4 percent of GDP. Here's how security policy could...
Rising homicide rates are damaging Brazil’s economy and leading to skyrocketing public security costs,...
Crime now costs Latin America’s largest economy over $75 billion a year, double the amount of two decades...
Brazil’s homicide rate soared over the past two decades even as the state and the public sector greatly...
Latin America is the planet's most urbanized region. In just over a generation - between 1950 and 2010...