Central America
New memoir speaks to the trauma of migration and the potential for healing
Poet and author Javier Zamora recounts nearly every detail of his harrowing journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was 9 years old in a new memoir called "Solito."
Addressing migration requires long-term commitment, says analyst on Harris visit to Guatemala
Pandemic disrupts remittances, leaving immigrants' families without lifelines
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'We're dead here': Migrants stranded in Panama rainforest amid coronavirus
In Central America, efforts to slow spread of coronavirus could lead to 'autocratic tendencies'
While public health and medical workers worldwide agree on the urgency of the pandemic, human rights observers say they are becoming increasingly concerned with how some political leaders in Central America may use their emergency powers.
Rainforests are 'worth more alive than dead,' according to science — and economics
Earth’s rainforests are astonishingly biodiverse ecosystems that can drive the climates of faraway continents, but they’re disappearing in the name of the kind of economic development that values rainforests more when logged, mined, or turned into farmland. A new book argues that the world’s rainforests are most valuable when kept intact.
Guatemala shut down its anti-corruption commission. Now its people worry about impunity.
President Jimmy Morales, who is under investigation, shut down Guatemala's popular anti-corruption commission. Now the country is embroiled in a battle over its legacy.
How Trump’s bilateral deals with Central America undermine the US asylum system
For the US, the deals with Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to take back migrants are like a fortification, shielding the country from taking responsibility for people seeking international protection. They add yet another line of defense to other drastic measures the US has recently taken to keep them out.
Why it's harder to win asylum, even in New York
New York has long had one of the most favorable immigration courts in the nation for asylum-seekers, but the number of immigrants who are denied asylum has nearly doubled, as compared to four years ago.
As Trump eyes more family detention, experts say it puts kids at risk
Doctors inspecting detention centers found problems with recruiting and retaining qualified pediatricians and mental health care providers, and a lack of access to emergency and specialty care, given the remote locations of most of the facilities.
One year after Nicaraguan uprising, Ortega is back in control
A massive protest movement exploded across Nicaragua in April 2018, threatening to topple the country's authoritarian regime. What happened to Central America's "tropical spring?"
State Dept. list of corrupt Central American government officials is a ‘sham,’ rep. says
After asking the US State Department for a list of corrupt government officials in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, some lawmakers are unimpressed with what they were given.
Trump administration 'seems disinclined to cooperate,' says former US ambassador to Mexico
The former US ambassador to Mexico says the Trump administration is "an administration that seems disinclined to cooperate."
Some Salvadoran migrants look to other nations for refuge as US tightens border
For some Salvadorans, the promise of the “American Dream” has been tainted by coordinated deterrence efforts from Mexico and the United States. They're looking to places like Costa Rica for refuge — for now.