MIAMI (AP) -- Transnational criminal organizations across Latin America pose the region's greatest threat, U.S. officials and experts agreed Friday.

"We have a key threat that we all need to focus on and that is transnational criminal organizations," the head of U.S. Southern Command Gen. Douglas Fraser told a conference organized by the University of Miami's Center for Hemispheric Policy.
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