In the heart of some of South America's biggest cities, local authorities have ceded control of drug slums to organized crime groups. InSight Crime identifies three such places where violent gangs ...

In the past three years, a spike in homicides has turned Caracas into the city with the highest homicide rate in South America. In 2007, there were 2,710 homicides or 130 per 100,000 citizens, up ...

If America decides to take on its growing slum problem, people will need to think hard about how to do so. Mobility programs are proven to work for the families who move, but what happens to the ...

In this excerpt from his new book "Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America," journalist Ioan Grillo travels deep into a Rio de Janeiro favela dominated ...

What Will Become of America’s Slums? Efforts to dismantle segregation may take resources away from some of the poorest communities, where investment is most needed.

Similar slum clearance is occurring elsewhere throughout Africa. In Cape Town and Johannesburg, in South Africa, the practice is a legacy of apartheid and nowadays remains just as vicious.

A few years ago the Village Voice took a look at the South Bronx area (known as America's worst slum), recalling: " Robert Moses slammed his fist into the neighborhood in the 1940s and 1950s ...

This shapes Latin America in countless ways beyond bird’s-eye photography: physically, through the proliferation of high fences and security cameras; politically, in populism and leftward ...

He added, "The slums of Mumbai are spreading across America," and "San Francisco used to be the most beautiful city in America in my opinion … I worked in San Francisco and all that.

'America Is Going To Be The Poorest Country In The World' Robert Kiyosaki Warns That 'The Slums Of Mumbai Are Spreading Across America' - Here Are His 3 Favorite Investments For Protecting Wealth ...

Around 500 people were evacuated from their homes on Friday after a fire broke out in Guryong Village, one of the last remaining slums in South Korea’s capital Seoul, according to fire officials.

Eviction of slum dwellers in South Asian nations cannot merely be dismissed as collateral damage of urban development and ...