As Latin American becomes wired for the Internet, the traditional brick and mortar businesses will come under pressure by online merchants whose access to consumers will leap across international boundaries. While this may help consumers gain access to a greater variety of goods, significant...

Fighting globalized crime is dependent on cooperation between law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies among nations. Over the course of several decades, states have entered into reciprocal arrangements to improve the manner in which nations can reach across international frontiers to...

Colombia has been among the Latin American states to have an accusatory criminal justice system imposed upon its judiciary by the United States. But the exportation of the Anglo-American accusatory system to supplant the centuries-old inquisitorial system has not achieved the intended results,...

United States immigration and deportation policy is broken with regard to the removal of violent youth gang members from the United States to their nations of origin. The result is that Central America is quickly becoming a lawless region of our hemisphere as gangs known as Mara Salvatrucha...

On March 1, 2008, Colombian military forces launched a cross-border airstrike and ground operation into Ecuador to attack a jungle encampment occupied by high ranking members of the Colombian guerrilla army known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The specific target of the...

On March 1, 2008, Colombian military forces launched a cross-border raid into Ecuador to attack a jungle encampment occupied by high ranking members of the Colombian guerrilla army known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The specific target of the air attack was Luis Edgar...