Honduras

A spat at Mercosur’s 30th birthday marked a low point for regional cooperation.

Corrupt local elites thwarted some engagement efforts of the past decade, Biden’s new special envoy wrote.

If Biden gets the response right, he could put the region on better footing for years to come.

Homeland Security rented vans to illegally hustle migrants to the border—in a foreign country.

Latin American governments have a chance to model a better version of the inspector general, with even greater autonomy, to address graft in the public health sector.

A conversation with Nina Lakhani, author of “Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet”

The Central American country has become a transit zone for drug traffickers and the center of a biofuel boom. Dispossessed indigenous groups are paying the price.

A memo details the Trump administration’s efforts to end waivers for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Central American nationals and send them home.

Even if President Juan Orlando Hernández were to leave office, the country’s problems would persist.

This week, the world marked International Women’s Day, and the U.S. State Department canceled an award for a Finnish journalist who criticized Trump.

The administration’s push to weaken oversight of gun exports could worsen the Central American refugee crisis.

The humanitarian visas offered to migrants don’t allow them to work, study, or receive benefits while letting the Mexican government duck its responsibilities under international law.

The Florida senator is increasingly influential on U.S. policy in Latin America.

The continuing crackdown on a corruption investigatory body could allow impunity to flourish ahead of this year’s elections.

Why U.S. aid to Central America has not eased the flow of migrants.

Seven men were convicted in the 2016 killing of environmental activist Berta Cáceres, but real accountability—and remedies for the corruption and insecurity plaguing Honduras—lag far behind.

Violence isn’t the only reason migrants are fleeing Central America. A four-year drought has destroyed harvests and lives—and has pushed the hungry northward.

The United States must foster free trade and economic growth in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, or the vicious cycle of violence will persist.