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🇬🇹 On October 22, 2025, Guatemala passed a new anti-gang law aimed at giving the government more resources to fight the groups, which are now considered terrorist organizations. The law designates the Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha gangs as terrorist groups, increases prison sentences for gang members convicted of crimes, and orders the construction of…

Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States. TdA operates in conjunction with Cártel de los Soles, the Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored, narco-terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela, and…

This article focuses on Hispanic street and prison gangs, which – along with other gangs – constitute a significant and iconic phenomenon of contemporary political discourse in the United States, as well as social and economic life in this country. In the XXI century, the prison systems of most countries continue to be characterised by…

Defendant Denis Rivera and two co-defendants Luis Alberto Cartagena and Noe David Ramirez-Guardado were indicted and now face trial for murder of Joaquin Diaz. Originally indicted for the same murder were three other individuals Angel Barrera, Andy Salinas, and Fredie Baires all of whom have now pled guilty and been sentenced. Yet, another individual, a…

Cole, a 40-year-old, black, former gang member, was born in Honduras and entered the United States at age eleven with his mother and two sisters. Cole has a lengthy criminal history in the United States, beginning when he was a juvenile. While in prison, he joined the Crips, an African American gang, as a way…

The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, inaugurated a renovated maximum-security prison this Tuesday after it was reclaimed from the control of gangs that ordered murders and extortions from there, and even had wild animals. ”Today begins (…) a new era in the Guatemalan penitentiary system,” said the president at the now-called Renovation I Maximum Security…