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‘Guzmán?’ Video casts new light on Mexico kingpin escape

New surveillance footage of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's July 11 escape featured for the first time audio from the maximum-security prison cell near Mexico City.

Mexican boy arrested for murder-for-hire via Facebook

A 14-year-old boy was arrested in Tijuana, Mexico for killing a man after he was allegedly contacted on Facebook and offered $1,900 to commit the crime, authorities said.

Mexico posts investigation into 43 missing students online

Mexico's attorney general published online on Sunday the 54,000 pages of documents from the much-criticized investigation into last year's disappearance of 43 students.

PHOTOS: Costa Rica’s new crime-fighting machine

The Tico Times had exclusive access to the inaugural mission of Costa Rica’s new fully armored crime-fighting vehicle, nicknamed “The Protector.”

Mexico police, protesters clash ahead of grim anniversary of 43 missing students

Protesters demanding justice for 43 missing students and their families clashed with police and torched a truck in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero on Tuesday, just days before the tragedy's first anniversary.

US seizes $12 million of drugs in Caribbean

The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it had seized cocaine and marijuana worth an estimated $11.8 million in the Caribbean Sea as part of an effort to counter rampant drug trafficking.

After 23 years in prison, top assassin for Pablo Escobar is a ‘reformed’ man

In an interview with The Tico Times, former Medellín cartel hit man John Jairo Velázquez Vásquez, aka “Popeye,” says he loves Costa Rica, and his former boss used to park his drug airplanes here.

In ‘Narcos,’ Netflix recreates Pablo Escobar’s world

Brazilian actor Wagner Moura knew he had his work cut out for him when Netflix hired him for the lead role in its latest original series, "Narcos," which chronicles the height of Don Pablo's reign over the Medellín Cartel in the 1980s.

In heroin fight, White House tries to break down walls between public health, police

As heroin overdoses and deaths soar in many parts of the United States, the White House plans to announce on Monday an initiative that will for the first time pair public health and law enforcement in an effort to shift the emphasis from punishment to the treatment of addicts.

US sheriffs are asking for armored trucks to wage war on marijuana. Yes, really.

Clearwater County, Idaho, has a population of fewer than 10,000 people. It seems like overkill to keep an armored truck on hand for the purpose of "marijuana eradication." This is especially true when you consider that in recent years, the number of marijuana grow sites discovered in the entire state of Idaho can be counted on one hand.

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