Central America - Page 10

October 11, 2024

Family sues after finding out on TikTok funeral home sent mom's body to wrong country

A family in New York City is suing a funeral home for mistakenly sending their mother Carmen Maldonado's casket to Guatemala for burial instead of Ecuador.

September 25, 2024

El Salvador's Bukele slams censorship as he touts his country's turnaround: 'We have freed millions'

El Salvador, once known as the "murder capital of the world," underwent a significant transformation after electing Nayib Bukele as president, allowing him to enact deep crime reforms.

September 12, 2024

Biden-Harris spurned offers from Latin American leaders to help close the border

Far from saving Guatemala, the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of this small but regionally important pro-American neighbor has been appalling.

September 9, 2024

National police director, fugitive banker among 9 dead in El Salvador helicopter crash

El Salvador's police director, other top-ranking officials and fugitive banker Manuel Coto were reportedly killed in a military helicopter crash Sunday night.

September 2, 2024

Venezuela shows danger of dictators who use tech to control people

Venezuela's President Maduro has secured power and abused people's rights with tech repression. To fight back against it, the US has to support global digital freedom.

August 29, 2024

Expert blasts Biden admin for reviving immigration program shut down for 'mass fraud': All about 'optics'

A Biden administration push to revive a controversial immigration program that allows migrants to fly directly into the country can be attributed to political optics, one critic says.

August 27, 2024

Biden-Harris border policies wreak havoc on indigenous tribe, says expert: ‘Pushed aside and destroyed’

Panama's indigenous Embera tribe has had its traditional way of life threatened by three years of mass migration through tribal lands it holds near the infamous Darien Gap.

August 22, 2024

Guatemalan police arrest 7 accused of trafficking the 53 migrants who died in Texas in 2022

Guatemalan police have arrested 7 Guatemalans accused of smuggling more than 50 migrants from Central America and Mexico who died in 2022 after they were abandoned in a tractor trailer in Texas.

August 20, 2024

Panama deports 29 Colombians on first US-funded flight

Panama has deported 29 Colombians on what was reportedly the first flight paid for by the U.S.; the two countries signed an agreement last month to address immigration through the Darien jungle.

July 26, 2024

Harris failed to combat ‘root causes’ of illegal immigration, former Border Patrol union chief says

Border Patrol's former union president says Vice President Harris has not done enough to secure the U.S. border and has failed to identify the real root causes of migration.