The Latest Breaking News from Central America

Moisés Castillo joined the AP in 1994 at the age of 19, covering Central America and Mexico while based in Guatemala City

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters constitute fundamental lenses through which…

Vice President Kamala Harris's efforts to address migration through investments in Central America faced criticism and praise, highlighting the complexitie...

After leaving Congress, Reichert took up work as a lobbyist, urging foreign governments to adopt "Rapid DNA"

September arabica coffee (KCU24 ) on Friday closed up +3.25 (+1.43%), and Sep ICE robusta coffee (RMU24 ) closed up +2 (+0.05%). Coffee prices Friday settled higher on signs of smaller global supplies. Short covering in coffee future emerged Friday after the Honduran Coffee Institute reported that coffee exports from...

Ten migrants drowned in the Darién Gap tragedy, emphasizing the dangers faced by those seeking passage from South America to Central America.

Vice President Kamala Harris navigates the border crisis, focusing on root causes of migration in Central America amidst criticism and praise for her efforts.

Activities associated with cocaine trafficking threaten two-thirds of the most important landscapes in Central America for 196 forest bird species, including 67 migratory species. This is the key takeaway from a study that colleagues and I published in June 2024 in the journal Nature Sustainability.

The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group of scientists also said that extreme highs witnessed over that region in May and June were four times as likely to occur today as a quarter of a century ago.