Guatemala landslide kills dozens
At least 34 people were killed at around 11am on Sunday morning in the village of Santa Elena Ajquil in San Cristóbal Verapaz, Alta Verapaz in the north of Guatemala after a landslide buried a group...
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Torrential rains have killed at least 80 people in Central America including 32 people in El Salvador and 28 in Guatemala. The majority have died due to severe mudslides. This weekend, the rainfall...
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Victims of Geography: The Failure of the War on Drugs in Central America
Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia and María Angela Holguín, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia at the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia (Photo: OAS) Last week the largest...
View ArticleHonduras: Another Journalist Murdered
Erick Martínez Ávila was found dead this Monday in the Honduran village of Guasculile. He was a journalist, a leader of the lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual community, and a candidate for the...
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Venezuelan Election: Fingers Crossed North of the Darien Gap
Tomorrow, Venezuelans will have to decide whether they want another six years of president Hugo Chávez, or whether they want something different. Chavez campaigning in Caracas, Venezuela. (Photo...
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Costa Rica: Central American States Agree on Greater Integration
SICA flagThe presidents of the Central American Integration System (SICA) agreed yesterday to restructure the regional integration system in order to make it more efficient and transparent. They also...
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Central America: Health Alert Due to Dengue Fever Epidemic
Aedes aegypti mosquito (photo: Wikimedia Commons)A dengue fever epidemic has affected more than 120,000 people in Central America this year, causing 60 deaths so far. According to the Pan American...
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Central America: Dengue Epidemic Sweeps Region
Mosquito (photo: wikipedia) Central America is facing its worst dengue epidemic since 2008, according to the Panamerican Health Organisation. The organisation highlighted the presence of a very...
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Central America: More Than 17,000 Refugees Fleeing Violence
Central America (Photo: Wikimedia) A report released today has revealed that between 2008 and 2012 17,129 refugees were registered in the area known as the ‘North Triangle’ in Central America made up...
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Latin America News Roundup: 24th April 2014
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff (photo: Presidency of Brazil) Brazil: Rousseff Signs “Digital Consitution”: Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff yesterday signed into law a “digital constitution”,...
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Central American Leaders meet with Obama about Migration Crisis
A section of the US-Mexico border fence (photo courtesy of Wikipedia) The presidents of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador today met with the US president Barack Obama to address the Central...
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Central America’s Northern Triangle: The Region of Those Who Run (Part II)
This article originally appeared as ‘La Región de los que Huyen‘ by Daniel Valencia Caravantes and Jimmy Alvarado in El Faro. You can read Part I here. It is after thousands of Central Americans have...
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Central America’s Northern Triangle: The Region of Those Who Run (Part I)
This article originally appeared as ‘La Región de los que Huyen‘ by Daniel Valencia Caravantes and Jimmy Alvarado in El Faro. It is after thousands of Central Americans have fled the region, reporting...
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Central America: Severe Drought Threatens Food Stocks for Millions
The World Food Program (WFP) announced yesterday that over 2.3m Central Americans, the majority of which are small subsistence farmers and day labourers, will need food aid due to a prolonged drought...
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