Category: Central America
May 7, 2020 > Vaclav Masek
White Flags as Guatemalans Grow Hungry
This article is republished from NACLA. GUATEMALA CITY—A drive down 7A Avenida in Guatemala City’s Zone 1 leads to the historic city center. Government-enforced lockdowns due to COVID-19 have rendered […] Read More >
April 9, 2020 > Paola Nagovitch
Gender-Based Quarantines in Panama and Peru Endanger Trans Communities
As global coronavirus cases climb above 1.5 million and deaths pass 94,000, heads of state are desperate to curb the disease’s reach. Latin American governments have taken a variety of […] Read More >
April 3, 2020 > Wilfredo Miranda
Nicaraguans Await the Pandemic that Their Government Ignores
Photographs by Carlos Herrera MANAGUA— Across Latin America, Holy Week is a time for vacations, church celebrations and family gatherings. That tradition will be broken this year, as most countries […] Read More >
May 6, 2019 > Vaclav Masek
Panama’s President-Elect Vows ‘Profound Change’ as Cloud of Corruption Hangs Over Varela
With 33% of the total vote share, Laurentino “Nito” Cortizo of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) was elected as Panama’s new president on Sunday, putting the country’s largest party back […] Read More >
February 6, 2019 > Vaclav Masek
How a Young President-Elect Broke Two-Party Dominance in El Salvador
Latin America’s 2019 electoral calendar began in El Salvador on Sunday. In a scenario that has become increasingly common in elections throughout the hemisphere, an outsider candidate who distanced himself […] Read More >
December 17, 2018 > Staff
Protests arise after Guatemalan girl dies in U.S. custody
TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA THE BORDER: Protests have been held at the U.S.-Mexico border after a seven-year-old girl who traveled north from Guatemala died in custody. As part of a […] Read More >
December 6, 2018 > Emilia Otte
Immigration Attorneys Challenged As More and More Children Need Legal Representation
NEW YORK- Lawyers at the Safe Passage Project in Manhattan are juggling more open immigration cases than ever before—and all of their clients are under the age of 21. […] Read More >
November 4, 2018 > Colleen Connolly
Fleeing violence in Honduras, migrants enter U.S. political arena as midterms approach
A Facebook post on Oct. 5 by Honduran migrant advocate and former lawmaker Bartolo Fuentes helped spread news of a caravan on its way to the United States, prompting its […] Read More >
October 18, 2018 > John Sevigny
El Salvador’s Murdered Ex-Archbishop is Canonized
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – At 2 a.m. local time last Sunday, while gang-related killings continued throughout the country, El Salvador’s murdered former Archbishop Oscar Romero was canonized. It may have […] Read More >
September 26, 2018 > Jo Corona
Nicaragua poised to clash with US at UN General Assembly
The United States put the roiling domestic unrest in Nicaragua on the UN Security Council’s agenda this month, only days after the country expelled a UN human rights mission sent […] Read More >