August marks highest number of illegal family crossings at US-Mexico border in four years
At least 91,000 immediate family members were detained last month, the highest figure since May 2019
A Honduran Alcatraz: Xiomara Castro intends to build a prison on an island for 2,000 gang members
The maximum security mega-complex will be located in a Caribbean archipelago. ‘The idea is for criminals to lose touch with everything,’ says the government
The US slaps sanctions on two former presidents of El Salvador, a Guatemala prosecutor and high-ranking Nicaragua officials
The State Department warns that it ‘will consider all available tools to deter and disrupt anti-democratic activity’ in Central American countries
Honduras adopts El Salvador-style tactics in anti-gang crackdown on prison inmates
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The country has started a Nayib Bukele-inspired mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last week that killed 11 people
Gang slaughtered 46 women at Honduran prison with machetes, guns and flammable liquid, official says
The carnage in Tuesday’s riot was the worst atrocity at a women’s prison in recent memory, something President Xiomara Castro called “monstrous”
Honduras opens embassy in China after breaking off ties with Taiwan
China’s official CCTV says Foreign Minister Qin Gang and his Honduran counterpart Enrique Reina took part in the inauguration of the embassy on Sunday morning
United States will let in at least 100,000 Latin Americans to reunite with families
As the U.S. prepares for the end of Title 42 restrictions, officials have released few details about who would be eligible for the immigration permissions known as family reunification parole
Lives immigrants built in Texas town shattered by shooting
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The life Wilson Garcia, a Honduran immigrant, had built for his wife and three children was shattered when his neighbor burst into his Cleveland, Texas, home on April 28 and fatally shot five people
US and Mexico agree on tighter immigration policies at border
Under the agreement, Mexico will continue to accept migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua who are turned away at the border
Honduras establishes ties with China after Taiwan break
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The diplomatic victory for Beijing signals growing Chinese influence in Latin America
The reality of migrant women en route to the US: rapes and no access to hospitals
Doctors Without Borders has identified sexual violence as one of the most heinous problems in Mexico and Central America
Online system to seek asylum in US is quickly overwhelmed
New appointments are available each day at 6am, but migrants find themselves stymied by error messages from the government’s CBPOne mobile app
Mexico’s López Obrador accuses Biden of ‘disdain’ in talks on immigration, fentanyl trafficking and security
The Mexican president told his US counterpart to ‘do away’ with his ‘abandonment of Latin America’ in a bilateral meeting held as part of the North American Leaders’ Summit
Honduran gang victim: ‘I didn’t find out my daughter had been raped until we got to Spain’
A young mother and her three children left their home in Tegucigalpa to escape the violence after witnessing a gang murder
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