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The 14 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year. [2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.
In July 2019, Argentina officially designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, freezing its assets and accusing the group of responsibility for the 1992 Israeli embassy bombing and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Argentina is the first country in Latin America to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. [46]
Recent statistics indicate that crime is becoming the biggest problem in Latin America. [8] Amnesty International has declared Latin America as the most dangerous region in the world for journalists to work. [9] In Mexico, armed gangs of rival drug smugglers have been fighting it out with one another, thus creating new hazards in rural areas.
The Vandalika Teodoro Suárez Gang was an Argentine urban guerrilla group active in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, from 2010 to 2011, where it launched attacks on banks and offices belonging to private companies.
Images of half naked prisoners in Argentina with their hands tied behind their backs have drawn both criticism and praise in the country, with many citing echoes of El Salvador President Nayib ...
Gangs in Argentina (1 C, 3 P) ... Gangs in the United States (9 C, 26 P) V. Gangs in Venezuela ... Statistics; Cookie statement; Mobile view ...
Argentina has Latin America's largest Jewish population. A 1994 attack on a Jewish community center killed 85 people in what remains the deadliest such incident in the South American nation's history.
Incidents in January alone have included an on-air attack by armed men on a TV station, the taking of more than 200 prison officials hostage and the kidnapping of police officers, as well as the ...