The gangs in our barrio are awake. I lie on the ground covering my head."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Some graffiti paintings were signs marking the territories of city gangs or illegal crime groups.

VOA: special.2011.01.19

Many in Baltimore believe he was beaten by local criminal gangs.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

The Niger Delta remains a stronghold for gangs and militant groups with strong opposition toward foreign oil companies and the government.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

In many cases,police and soldiers sent to fight the drug gangs have been accused of working with the criminals.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

The U.S.Navy and the navies of dozens of other countries are patrolling the narrow waterway to deter ship hijackings-for-ransom by pirate gangs.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

Migrants face a number of hazards along the way, including wild animals, unsafe transport and criminal gangs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Riots by rival gangs and factions of the security forces drove 100,000 people from their homes.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Incidents of Somali piracy has waned in the past few months as monsoon season has made the offshore waters more dangerous for the opportunistic gangs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

It's a rough neighborhood where,he says, he competes against drugs and gangs for attention.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Gangs of teens prowl the camp, where up to 50,000 survivors have gathered.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

But he says President Calderon has bolstered the nation's confidence and pride by taking on the criminal gangs and the corrupt officials who have allowed them to flourish.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

One of the top U.S.experts on Mexico, William Grayson at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, says Mexicans strongly support Mr.Calderon's fight against the criminal gangs.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

The Obama administration has boosted the number of federal agents and augmented other resources along the U.S.border with Mexico in response to the increasing violence by drug gangs.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

Campbell says it is in the interest of the United States and Mexico to prevent criminal gangs from gaining effective control of Juarez or any other parts of Mexico.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Problems are unemployment, drugs,gangs,it is pretty bad out here,pretty bad."

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

They should be putting in place procedures to insure that the weapons that they buy are not diverted to insurgent groups or illegal organizations, like drug trafficking gangs and other criminal cartels.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

In her talk with reporters, Secretary Clinton praised the Calderon administration's performance in the drug fight, saying that Mexican forces are often out-gunned by drug gangs armed with military-style weapons bought in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

The request for the halt to returning prisoners through Juarez originated with Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz after officials there noticed that many homicides in the city were related to gangs that operate across the border and that ten percent of the city's murder victims had been deported from the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01