Mexican marines guard the entrance of the building complex where the leader of the Beltran Leyva's cartel, Arturo Beltran Leyva, was shot dead by security forces, in Cuernavaca on December 17, 2009.

June 27 (UPI) --Latin America and the Caribbean rank among the regions with the highest rates of criminal activity worldwide, marked by a strong presence of illicit markets and limited institutional ...

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Slavery. Drugs. Weapons. Corruption. These are the hallmarks of transnational organized crime--a multi-billion-dollar industry that operates across borders, exploiting vulnerable people and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Organizd crime, including drug smuggling is stifling Latin America's economy, according to a recent report by the World Bank.