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.
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.
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.
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.
"Migration is essentially a social release valve for migrants," says Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council's senior director for the Western Hemisphere.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Berta Cáceres was killed in western Honduras in 2016 and her murder brought renewed attention to the dangers environmentalists face in Central America.
A record number of migrant families arrived at the Southwest border over the last year, despite the Trump administration's effort to deter illegal immigration by separating families at the border.
