Central America

Central America 12/02/19, 08:06

At least 21 people were killed after security forces engaged in a gun battle with suspected cartel members on Saturday, Nov. 30, in Villa Union, a town in Coahuila State near the U.S. border with Mexico, according to Fox News. The ...

Central America 11/03/19, 17:25

Relatives of women and girls murdered or missing in Mexico marched through the capital Sunday carrying over 100 purple crosses inscribed with the names of victims, demanding justice for their loved ones and improved efforts to investigate their cases. Bearing T-shirts ...

Central America 09/06/19, 08:26

Mexico said it has met a U.S. 90-day deadline to reduce migrant flows across its territory. Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard is to deliver a final report on the Mexican government initiatives on Friday, Sept. 6, three months after U.S. President Donald ...

Central America 08/22/19, 18:19

U.S. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was in Panama City on Thursday, Aug. 22, to meet with security officials and ministers from Central America and Colombia. He tweeted his arrival for the Ninth Northern Triangle Ministerial and his readiness to ...

Central America 08/10/19, 06:11

Mexican police discovered 19 dead people, some people hanged from an overpass and others butchered and dumped on the road, in what authorities believe is a gang turf war, according to The Associated Press. In the state of Michoacán, Mexico, nine ...

Central America 08/06/19, 19:19

The United States is ready to target any individual or country that supports Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime. On Tuesday, speaking from Peru's capital Lima, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said the Trump administration will start enforcing financial embargoes on anybody—at ...

Central America 08/03/19, 10:54

Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard announced on July 30, that the number of illegal immigrants heading to the United States from Central America has been greatly reduced. Ebrard explained that although 144,278 immigrants arrived in May, in June ...

Central America 07/25/19, 14:34

Mexico is building a huge shelter for illegal immigrants on its northern border. The facility will allow these people to await for a response to their asylum applications in the United States. In the city of Tijuana, bordering San Diego (California), ...

Central America 07/22/19, 10:54

As part of his visit to Latin America, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele met last Sunday at the Presidential House in San Salvador to discuss economic cooperation and measures needed to reduce illegal migration. According ...

Central America 07/22/19, 05:30

The Costa Rican Health Ministry said it has confirmed 19 deaths from the consumption of alcohol tainted with methanol. The ministry said in a Friday report that the investigation is continuing, but it has counted 14 men and five women who ...

Central America 07/12/19, 15:25

Two weeks ago, the Cuban Ministry of Finance published a new list of prices for products sold in CUC (the Cuban equivalent of the dollar) and in pesos. The inventory of prices of food and hygiene products, among others, was included ...

Central America 07/12/19, 14:17

As a contingency plan to curb immigration, the Mexican government unveiled the first two U.S. investment projects in the south of the country. The $800 million granted for the region would be for the construction of a natural gas plant ...

Central America 07/10/19, 14:40

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador fired Mexican doctors or will not renew their contracts this December, and will import Cuban professionals. Due to the socialist president's huge health cut—44%—at least 10,000 Mexican workers in the sector have been laid-off. Instead, he ...