Tag: Central America

• Thursday, September 16th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Ortega leads Nicaragua towards authoritarianism, says Blinken

  

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday said Nicaraguan President and former guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega was leading the Central American country “down the dark path of authoritarianism,” as most political opponents are arrested or charged with treason.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Storm in Central America leaves at least 18 dead, and hundreds homeless

  

  Emergency workers were searching for seven people still missing Monday as El Salvador and its Central American neighbors picked through the destruction after the first-named Pacific storm of the year left at least 18 people dead.

• Thursday, May 14th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Fewer remittances because of Covid-19 will hit hard Central and Latin America

  

  Remittances—the money that immigrants working abroad send home to families on a regular basis—have become a major source of funding for developing countries. In 2019, total global remittances exceeded US$550 billion, putting them on a par with levels achieved by foreign direct investment.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 12:44 UTC

  Thousands arrested in Central America for violating quarantine rules

  

  Thousands of people have been detained across Central America for violating rules put in place by their governments to curb the fast-spreading new coronavirus in a region that has fewer medical resources than developed countries.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Mexico offers jobs to a Central America migrants' caravan heading for the US

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered 4,000 jobs Friday to migrants in a new caravan currently crossing Central America toward the United States.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  EU sanctions on Nicaragua for Ortega's human rights abuses and repression

  

  The European Union adopted a sanctions framework for Nicaragua on Monday over human rights abuses and repression in the Central American country under leftist President Daniel Ortega.

• Friday, August 2nd 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  US to seek migration deals with other Central American countries

  

  The United States will seek migration deals with El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama, akin to last week's with Guatemala, to curb emigration from Central America, a senior US official said Thursday.

• Monday, July 29th 2019 - 09:28 UTC

  Mexico will help Honduras create 20.000 jobs planting trees

  

  A scheme to create 20,000 jobs in Honduras has been agreed between the country's president and Mexico's leader in an attempt to stem the flow of migrants toward the United States.

• Saturday, July 27th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Guatemala caves in and signs migration agreement with the US

  

  The US and Guatemala have signed a migration agreement, days after US President Donald Trump threatened the Central American country with tariffs. Under the deal, migrants from Honduras and El Salvador who pass through Guatemala would be required to stop and seek asylum there first. Migrants who failed to do so would then be ineligible for asylum in the US.

• Monday, July 1st 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  El Salvador confirms its relations with Beijing, and dropping Taiwan

  

  El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ratified his country's diplomatic relations with China, almost a year after breaking ties with Taiwan.