Hondurans head to the polls on Sunday, but widespread political violence during the campaign and questionable results from 2017 are looming large.
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Is Hurricane Season Still Going? You Bet.
There hasn’t been a named storm in the Atlantic Ocean since early October, but about a month remains in the hurricane season. “Don’t raid your hurricane supplies yet,” said one meteorologist.
At Mexico-U.S. Security Talks, Migration Question Is Largely Avoided
As diplomats from both countries began negotiating a new security agreement on Friday, the focus was on stopping criminal activity while the border crisis was conspicuously sidestepped.
After Pastor in Mexico Evicts Nearly 200 Migrants, His Brother Welcomes Them All
An evangelical minister in a Mexico border town had let dozens of migrant families live in his church. When he ousted most of them, his brother across the way invited the outcasts into his home.
After Pastor Evicts Nearly 200 Migrants, His Brother Welcomes Them All
An evangelical minister in a Mexico border town had let dozens of migrant families live in his church. When he ousted most of them, his brother across the way invited the outcasts into his home.
Biden’s Dilemma in Guatemala: Stop Corruption, or Migration?
President Biden promised to attack corruption in Central America head on, but that goal has taken a back seat to cooperating on stopping migrants from the region.
How Peppers Proliferated Around the Planet
In the world’s plant gene banks, scientists studied how so many varieties of the humble capsicum worked their way onto our plates.
A new initiative will bring more vaccines to Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Pan American Health Organization will start its own vaccine program, stepping in where Covax, the global program for vaccinating developing countries, has fallen short.
Global Health Official Warns of Vaccine Desperation in Central America and Caribbean
Only 15 percent of people across Central America and the Caribbean have been fully vaccinated; in Honduras and Haiti, the figure is less than 1 percent.
W.H.O. Official Denounces Unequal Covid Vaccine Access
Just one person in 10 has been fully vaccinated in the region, the official said, adding that vaccine access “shouldn’t be a privilege for a few but a right we all share.”