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El Salvador's El Zonte is now popularly known as "Bitcoin Beach," for being the first town to use the cryptocurrency as a form of payment for services, products and salaries.

El Salvador's leader wants to go in even bigger on bitcoin

Mar 27, 2022
After making the cryptocurrency legal tender, President Nayib Bukele plans to launch bitcoin-backed bonds to raise $1 billion for the country.
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Alex Roldan (right), captain of the Salvadoran men's national soccer team, during practice at the Cuscatlán Stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Tuesday, where they will play against Canada on Wednesday. The game is part of the Americas regions' CON

Salvadoran Americans bring World Cup soccer hopes to El Salvador as it faces Canada

Feb 02, 2022
El Salvador's national soccer team plays its World Cup qualifying match against Canada Wednesday night — with several players and coaches from the United States.
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World
Gegrand Joseph (front), a Haitian who hiked across the Darién Gap five years ago, was deported by the Trump administration and is tackling this same patch of jungle a second time to get back to the U.S.

A once-remote patch of rainforest is now packed with migrants trying to reach the U.S.

Nov 19, 2021
More than 100,000 people have crossed the Darién Gap jungle from Colombia to Panama so far this year. The environmental impact and threats from cartels are many.
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Politics
Vice President Harris and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador discussed migration and economic cooperation Tuesday.

Harris Wanted To Talk About Migration, But Instead Got Pushed On A Border Visit

Jun 08, 2021
Vice President Harris met Tuesday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in her trip to assess the root causes pushing migrants to seek asylum at the U.S. border.
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Latin America
A man cleans a rooftop as the sun sets over the embattled Pedregal neighborhood of Tegucigalpa.

Can U.S. Aid Make Honduras More Livable? One Group Tries to Slow Out-Migration

May 25, 2021
The Association for a More Just Society, is one of many organizations working in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to address societal ills that are driving migrants north to the U.S. border.
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Untangling Disinformation
A man walks by a mobile health clinic displaying a picture of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (right) and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, in Managua on April 14, 2020. The government claims to be successfully combating the pandemic but h

Citizens Work To Expose COVID's Real Toll In Nicaragua As Leaders Claim Success

May 12, 2021
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government insists the country has low numbers of cases and deaths from the pandemic. A grassroots group is working to reveal the true impact is far worse.
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National
In the weeks after returning after the floods from the hurricanes, the Ramos family collected the muddied detritus of their homestead in their yard.

Why People Are Fleeing Honduras For The U.S.: 'All That's Left Here Is Misery'

May 10, 2021
Hunger, violence and catastrophic flooding are leading more families to flee the Honduras for the southern U.S. border than any other country. At least 200 families a day are asking for asylum.
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Politics
Juan Gonzalez, shown here during a meeting last month at the White House, recently returned from a trip to Mexico and Guatemala. He's the National Security Council's senior director for the Western Hemisphere.

'Predatory Elite' Also Bear The Blame For Migrant Crisis, NSC's Juan Gonzalez Says

Mar 26, 2021
"Migration is essentially a social release valve for migrants," says Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council's senior director for the Western Hemisphere.
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Latin America
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández (left) speaks with then-Vice President Biden during a news conference in Guatemala City on March 2, 2015. Leaders from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras were meeting with Biden for two days of talks about chil

With Honduras' Narco Allegations, Pressure Rises To Sanction Its Leader

Mar 18, 2021
U.S. prosecutors say President Juan Orlando Hernández enabled drug trafficking into the U.S., and Democratic lawmakers want punishment. It comes as President Biden seeks Central American aid.
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Weather
A truck flounders in a flooded street in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, just hours before Hurricane Iota made landfall in the country Monday night. By Tuesday morning, the storm had significantly weakened, but it still poses life-threatening dangers for resi

Hurricane Iota, Weakening But Dangerous, Slams An Already Sodden Central America

Nov 17, 2020
Iota diminished to a Category 1 hurricane within hours of its landfall in Nicaragua. Still, as the second strong storm to hit the region in as many weeks, Iota bears grave dangers for residents.
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Weather
This satellite image made available by NOAA shows Hurricane Iota in the North Atlantic Ocean on Monday, at 07:11 EST.

Hurricane Iota Makes Landfall In Nicaragua, Region Braces For 'Catastrophic' Impact

Nov 16, 2020
Just two weeks after Hurricane Eta dumped heavy rainfall in the region, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and southern Belize are facing an even stronger storm fueled by climate change.
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World
Honduran migrants walking in a group stop before Guatemalan police in January near Agua Caliente, Guatemala. The Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says U.S. immigration agents in Guatemala helped officials deport Hondurans travel

Democratic Lawmakers Denounce DHS 'Ad Hoc' Migrant Deportations In Guatemala

Oct 29, 2020
Democratic lawmakers are demanding more information from the Trump administration about U.S. agents working in Guatemala to round up Honduran migrants and send them to the Guatemala-Honduras border.
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World
Former Salvadoran official Inocente Orlando Montano attends a trial in Madrid on June 8 for his alleged role in the killing of five Spanish priests in El Salvador in 1989.

Priest Killing Case In Spain Raises Hope For Justice

Aug 13, 2020
A court in Madrid is due to rule next month on murder and terrorism charges against an ex-Salvadoran military officer alleged to have played a key role in the 1989 executions of five Spanish priests.
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World
Mexico's National Guard prevents migrants who walked across the river from making their way further into Mexico.

Honduran Mom Reunites With Her 5-Year-Old After Migrant Caravan Crackdown In Mexico

Jan 22, 2020
After Mexican officials fought to stop a migrant caravan from entering, Saury Vallecilla Ortega was temporarily separated from her youngest child and feared for the worst.
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World
Lucía Cerna worked as a housekeeper at the José Simeón Cañas Central American University in El Salvador. On Nov. 16, 1989, she witnessed armed soldiers kill six Jesuit priests, a cook and a teenage girl.

'I Miss Them, Always': A Witness Recounts El Salvador's 1989 Jesuit Massacre

Nov 16, 2019
Six priests became modern-day martyrs in one of the most high-profile religious crimes in recent Latin American history. A woman who witnessed the incident says the FBI pressured her to stay quiet.
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Goats and Soda
Laborers in the sugar cane fields of Central America are experiencing a rapid and unexplained form of kidney failure. Above: Harvesting sugar cane in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua.

Whatever Happened To ... The Mysterious Kidney Disease Striking Central America?

Aug 26, 2019
Some researchers now say that tens of thousands of deaths due to kidney failure may be linked to climate change. But others aren't so sure.
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National
Juan Fierro García runs a migrant shelter in Juárez, Mexico, that houses asylum-seekers. Here, he joins in prayer with migrants from Central America, Cuba and Africa.

Thousands Wait In Juárez, Mexico, For A Chance At Sanctuary In The U.S.

Jun 01, 2019
Most people waiting are from Cuba and Central America, but increasingly Juárez has become a destination for migrants from all over the world who are fleeing violence and persecution.
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World
José Alberto "Chepe" Idiáquez, a Catholic priest and rector at a private Jesuit university in Nicaragua, has become an outspoken critic of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.

'Pray For Me': Nicaraguan Priest Threatened With Death Reaches Out To Niece In U.S.

Apr 24, 2019
The private Jesuit university in Managua, Nicaragua, where priest Chepe Idiáquez works is one of a series of Catholic institutions that have been attacked, as the country's yearlong unrest continues.
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Here & Now Compass
President Trump says he will close the United States' Southern border, or large sections of it, next week if Mexico does not immediately stop illegal immigration. Here Trump speaks to reporters during a visit to Lake Okeechobee and Herbert Hoover Dike at

U.S. Decision To Cut Central America Aid Could Worsen Migrant Crisis, Experts Say

Apr 02, 2019
The Trump administration notified Congress that it will seek to suspend aid authorized in 2017 and 2018 to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, saying the money isn't helping ease the border crisis.
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National
Jose Eduardo hugs his 15-year-old daughter Yaimy, 10 months after they were separated at the U.S. border.

A Honduran Father Is Reunited With His Daughter, 10 Months After Being Separated

Mar 14, 2019
Jose Eduardo was separated from his daughter Yaimy after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border last spring. He was deported, but his daughter remained in U.S. custody. Now, he has returned to find her.
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Opinion
A woman spreads incense over the remains of 172 unidentified people who were discovered buried at what was once a Guatemalan military camp during the civil war in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala, a day before their formal burial at the same site where they

Opinion: Guatemala Must Not Grant Amnesty To War Criminals

Feb 11, 2019
If a new bill passes, it would free dozens of ex-military officials either awaiting trial or already convicted of crimes against humanity, undoing years of progress, expert Jo-Marie Burt writes.
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Law
Carlos Catarldo Gomez, of Honduras, center, is escorted by Mexican officials after leaving the United States, the first person returned to Mexico to wait for his asylum trial date, in Tijuana, Mexico

Trump Administration Begins 'Remain In Mexico' Policy, Sending Asylum-Seekers Back

Jan 29, 2019
The new procedure is designed to prevent applicants from remaining in the U.S. while they await a hearing before an immigration judge.
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Latin America
Mayan indigenous people protest against the government of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales on the day he gives an address to Congress in Guatemala City, Monday.

Killings Of Guatemala's Indigenous Activists Raise Specter Of Human Rights Crisis

Jan 22, 2019
Indigenous groups and human rights activists worry that the violence that raged through their communities in the 1970s and 1980s is making a comeback.
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The Picture Show
Karen Paz hugs her daughter, Liliana Saray, 9. They are from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. "I feel free; I feel different," Paz said. "I don't have someone who imposes his views and his ways on me. I am not scared someone will come and attack me, like I used

'I'm A Survivor Of Violence': Portraits Of Women Waiting In Mexico For U.S. Asylum

Jan 16, 2019
Photographer Federica Valabrega photographed Central American women who fled domestic violence and joined a migrant caravan to seek asylum in the U.S.
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Latin America
Environmental activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated in 2016, after her decade-long campaign against the construction of a dam in Honduras.

7 Convicted In Assassination Of Honduran Environmental Activist

Nov 30, 2018
Berta Cáceres was killed in western Honduras in 2016 and her murder brought renewed attention to the dangers environmentalists face in Central America.

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