US border patrol and several states have found themselves overwhelmed lately, lacking resources to manage the thousands of migrants arriving from Mexico every day — a crisis that has exposed President Joe Biden to intense attacks from his Republican opponents. Border officials have in recent weeks counted some 10,000 daily […]
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Two Venezuelan migrants died, one of them a 4-year-old girl, and 30 others from Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and India were rescued alive on Saturday after a boat wrecked in the Caribbean of Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan Army reported. “The Army of Nicaragua […] through the Naval Force, carried out search, rescue […]
A court in El Salvador has ordered the arrest of former president Alfredo Cristiani for an alleged cover-up related to a civil war-era massacre of about 1,000 people, a source linked to the case said Saturday. The “provisional detention” of Cristiani, whose whereabouts are unknown, stems from an amnesty he […]
Media outlets in Nicaragua and opposition activists in exile denounced the detention of a bishop on Thursday. According to him, the Episcopal Conference was praying for Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, a critic of Daniel Ortega’s government who has been sentenced to 26 years in prison. Although the Nicaraguan police have not […]
The United Nations and the government of Costa Rica signed a $2 million migration aid fund, the UN office in the Central American country reported on Monday. The amount is intended to “strengthen peaceful coexistence, community integration and the institutional response in assisting migrant and refugee people in communities in […]
Mexico’s Maya tourist train glided into action on Friday, promising prosperity for one of the country’s poorest regions, but tainted by allegations of environmental devastation. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hailed his flagship project as a “magnum opus” built in “record time” ahead of the inauguration, during which he boarded […]
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR Court) condemned Honduras for violating the collective property rights over the ancestral lands of the Garifuna community of San Juan, according to a ruling published this Friday. “Honduras is responsible for the violation of the right to collective property, the obligation to guarantee […]
Guatemala’s president-elect, Bernardo Arévalo, highlighted on Wednesday his fight to “rescue democracy” in Guatemala from the hands of “politico-criminal elites,” during a visit to Costa Rica, where he met with President Rodrigo Chaves. Guatemala “is currently fighting to rescue democracy, its Constitution, the democratic process from the hands of the […]
Just one month before the presidential inauguration in Guatemala, the public prosecutor’s office is unrelenting in its onslaught against president-elect Bernardo Arévalo, who is denouncing an ongoing coup d’état to prevent him from assuming power. Why this offensive and how far can it go? Since Arévalo made it to the […]
On Tuesday, the Miss Universe Organization said it accepted the resignation of its Nicaraguan franchise owner, businesswoman Karen Celebertti, who was not allowed to return to the country and was accused of “conspiracy” after Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios’ victory in the pageant. Palacios’ win, the first for a Central American in […]