MEXICO CITY – A panic alert flashed across Alberto Herrera's computer screen. Men claiming to be with the notorious Gulf Cartel had stopped a convoy transporting chemicals through a lawless region of ...

As discussions about police reform abound throughout the Americas, Yanilda González, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, examines the implications of Latin America’s experience with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHARLESTON, Ill. (WCIA) — Eastern Illinois University Police Chief Marisol Gamboa — the first Latina police chief in the state — ...

The Los Angeles Latin press corps took Police Chief Ed Davis out to dinner the other night. The enchiladas were good but the conversation left both sides hungry for understanding. The dinner had been ...

From Guatemala City I have been keeping up with the events in Ferguson, Missouri and my heart goes out to those United States citizens who are actively resisting a brutal local police state. I sit ...

PITTSFIELD — Lucia Cabral said she never imagined she'd venture from her tiny hometown in Mexico to the ranks of an American police department. Before she moved to New York at age 12, she said her ...

“SEVEN rats eliminated,” began one voice message in a WhatsApp chat in El Salvador. “What joy!” In a country ravaged by gangs, such exchanges might be expected among hit men. Instead this discussion ...

Years of frustrated expectations and dissatisfaction with governments’ social policies boiled over in many Latin American countries in 2019, leading to massive protests. This year, the measures taken ...

The North Bergen Police Department holds a promotion ceremony for several of its veteran officers, including Lt. Cynthia Montero, who is Hudson County's first-ever Latina police captain, on Wednesday, ...

Magda Fernandez is only the second woman, and the first Latina, to be sworn in as chief of the San Diego Harbor Police. She also is recognized as the first Latina police chief in the county. Now she ...