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Central America 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.

OPINION 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.

Joe Biden 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.

IMMIGRATION 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.

Central America 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.

Central America 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.

Kamala Harris 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.

Central America July 2, 2024

US to pay for flights to help Panama remove migrants who may be heading north

The U.S. will pay for flights and provide other assistance to Panama to help remove migrants; an agreement was signed during a visit to Panama headed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas..

Central America June 26, 2024

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández sentenced to 45 years in US prison

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for colluding with drug traffickers to ensure over 400 tons of cocaine reached American soil.

Border security June 8, 2024

Bukele has El Salvador poised to prosper after stopping murder, migration cold in first term

Nayib Bukele’s economic success and his policies to restore security have made him one of the most popular presidents in Latin America.

Central America May 31, 2024

El Salvador says it foiled a plot to plant bombs on the day of President Bukele's inauguration

Authorities in El Salvador have reportedly broken up a plot to plant explosives around the country that involved 'veterans' of the Central American country's civil war in 1980-1992.