103 unaccompanied minors found in abandoned trailer in Mexico, government says
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican authorities found 103 unaccompanied minors mostly from Guatemala inside an abandoned truck trailer in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, the government said on Monday, in one of the biggest recent discoveries of migrant children traveling through Mexico. In addition to the 103 children, authorities found 212 adults from Guatemala, Honduras, […]
A changing religious landscape: Evangelicals now outnumber Catholics in three Central American nations – but some question the numbers
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA reports on the changing religious landscape in Central America…
Snapshot: Kayaking in Los Naranjos Ecological and Archeological Park, Honduras
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Honduras extends, expands state of emergency meant to fight crime
Tegucigalpa Reuters The Honduran Government on Saturday extended a state of emergency declaration for 45 days, expanding it to additional areas of the country in an effort to fight criminal gangs amid high levels of violence. The state of emergency, in place since 6th December in 165 areas of Honduras’ largest two cities, Tegucigalpa and […]
Julia kills 14 in Central America as it churns toward Mexico
San Salvador, El Salvador Reuters The death toll from tropical storm Julia rose to at least 14 on Monday, officials said, with victims confirmed in El Salvador and Honduras, as the weakening storm dumped heavy rainfall on a swath of Central America and southern Mexico. Salvadoran authorities reported the deaths of nine people as of […]
Honduras launches ‘Bitcoin Valley’ in the tourist town of Santa Lucia
Reuters People can pay for a slushie with crypto in the streets of “Bitcoin Valley,” a project in the Honduran tourist enclave of Santa Lucia through which the country has entered the digital currency trend. The small town in the mountains, 20 minutes from the capital Tegucigalpa, has become a bitcoin city. A man checks […]
Mistakes plague identification of migrants who died in Texas truck
Oaxaca City, MexicoReuters A week after 53 migrants died in a sweltering trailer in San Antonio, Texas, some of their nationalities are still unclear, highlighting the challenges that officials from at least four different countries face in identifying the victims of the deadliest US human smuggling tragedy on record. The information trickling from various governments […]
Mexican officials clear out migrant camp at Texas border
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican authorities have cleared a makeshift encampment of migrants in the northern border city of Reynosa that had grown over the past year to hold some 2,000 people, Mexico’s migration institute (INM) said on Tuesday. Many of the migrants, who are mainly from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti, were taken to […]
Migrant stories: Split up at the US-Mexico border, family finally reunites
MICA ROSENBERG and CARLOS BARRIA, of Reuters, report from Los Angeles on one migrant family’s struggle to be together…
Guatemala pushes back 622 migrants from US-bound caravan
Guatemala City, GuatemalaReuters Guatemalan authorities said on Monday they have sent back more than 600 migrants who entered the country in a caravan that was bound for the United States. Guatemala’s foreign ministry said 622 people, mainly from Honduras and Nicaragua, entered through border posts with Honduras, with minors making up about a quarter of […]