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 ...

Standing across the street from a bombed-out shell of a police station in the La Dolorita slum, motorcycle taxi driver Nelson Villareal explains why his community burned it down early last month ...

To understand how gangs became so powerful, we have to take a closer look at the environment itself: the ghettos of Latin America and the Caribbean. In Brazil, they’re called favelas; in Colombia, ...

KHAYELITSHA, South Africa (Reuters) – Beaten and set alight, Ncedile Gigi’s unrecognizable remains have not been buried since March, when a mob fed up with poor policing took the law in… ...

But there are key differences between African and American urban renewal. In Africa, slum neighborhoods generally have ... and is currently on a 1.5-year research project through the Global South.

Slums, swimming pools and Latin America’s inequality Its tax and welfare systems are shockingly bad at reducing inequality. ... In South Asia, by contrast, it increased by 46%.

The mayor of an Ecuadorian seaside town has been assassinated as crime in the South American country continues to spiral out of control. Agustin Intriago, the 38-year-old mayor of the Pacific ...