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Nicaragua’s President, Daniel Ortega, submitted a constitutional reform to Congress on Wednesday to consolidate total control over all branches of power alongside his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, who would be granted the title of “co-president.” The proposal, which extends the presidential term from five to six years, will be […]

The Nicaraguan government shut down 15 NGOs, including six religious ones, according to decrees published this Friday in the official newspaper La Gaceta. One resolution, signed by Interior Minister María Amelia Coronel, orders “the cancellation of legal personality and registration” of 13 NGOs “for failing to comply” with their legal […]

Eleven people have died in Panama due to storms that, over the last twelve days, have caused over 100 million dollars in losses from flooding and infrastructure collapse, the Panamanian government reported on Thursday. “Eleven Panamanians have lost their lives in this situation, more than 1,000 families have been directly […]

Jonathan Santos was playing a video game when he was arrested at his home during an anti-gang operation near San Salvador. Two years later, his father pleads to see him “even if just for a minute” to know that he’s alive. In his modest home in Soyapango, a town 12 […]

Two powerful earthquakes shook southern Cuba this Sunday in quick succession, reported U.S. geologists, while Cuban authorities said no tsunami warning was issued, and no immediate deaths were reported. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated the second tremor at a magnitude of 6.8. The earthquake occurred at a depth […]

The Guatemalan Prosecutor’s Office requested a prison sentence of 2,860 years this Thursday for a general for the extermination of Indigenous people during the civil war (1960-1996), marking a second genocide trial following the conviction of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt in 2013. As the conclusion phase of the trial […]

Although Latin America has not been a priority in the campaign for the November 5 elections in the United States, the victory of either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris could have dramatic repercussions for a region from which thousands of migrants head to the United States. Both have promised to […]

Migrants entering Panama from Colombia through the Darién jungle, on their route to the United States, will be fined up to $5,000, said Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino. “Any person who enters the country […] violating immigration control posts, whether by land, air, or sea, will be fined an amount […]

The experts’ assessment is clear: humans are the major threat to Earth’s land, seas and all the living things they shelter, including ourselves. The COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, enters its second week Monday to assess, and ramp up, progress towards achieving 23 targets agreed in Canada two years […]

Lilidia Quirós teaches her two daughters to feel proud of being Maleku, an indigenous community in northern Costa Rica that strives to preserve its traditions while competing with adventure tourism to attract visitors. Dressed in her ancestral outfit made of layers of bark and fiber from the mastate tree, she […]