One of the notorious Mexican cartels is the Jalisco New Cartel Generation, which is known for its aggressive use of violence and its public relations campaigns.
As the U.S. faces the biggest migrant surge in 20 years, the Biden administration is eyeing flying Latin American migrants to states near the Canadian border.
Sebastian Tovar, a man from Texas, has been charged with "transporting illegal aliens resulting in death" after a deadly head-on crash left eight migrants dead.
Authorities in Chile have confiscated more than three tons of cocaine and marijuana packed in white paper stamped with the image of drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Hopes were crushed when some illegal migrants were deported back to Mexico after spending most of their savings to pay human smugglers to bring them to the U.S.
Mexican authorities found 19 bullet-riddled and burned bodies near the U.S.-Mexico border in January, and 16 of them were identified as Guatemalan migrants.
A three-year-old Brazilian girl was beaten to death by her stepfather after she had wet the bed. Her mother was also imprisoned for failing to help her.
