May 2 | Today, this public hearing continued with the appearance of the first six of 42 witnesses, the Specialized Sentencing Court C, in San Salvador,...
May 1 | In addition to providing security to the population and putting criminals behind bars, the security fences implemented in El Salvador, specifically in Soyapango,...
April 29 | April is one day away from becoming the safest month in the history of El Salvador, since up to Thursday 27th the accumulated...
April 27 | International organizations condemned on Wednesday the murder of Nicaraguan community leader Bernabé Palacios at the hands of an armed group in the Autonomous...
April 27 | The Minister of Health, Francisco Alabi, informed during an interview in Noticiero El Salvador that the situation regarding COVID-19 is quite favorable, since...
April 26 | Agents of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the Anti-Narcotics Division of the National Civil Police (PNC) destroyed, this Tuesday, an accumulation of...
April 14 | The government of Daniel Ortega will declare April 19 as “National Day of Peace”, on the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the...
April 13 | Costa Rica received on Wednesday two nuns of the Dominican Congregation of the Annunciation who left Nicaragua after being expelled by the government...
March 28 | The Office of Detention and Removal (ERO) of the US Customs and Border Enforcement (ICE) reported the capture and deportation of Salvadoran Juan...
March 16 | Guatemala’s Interior Ministry reported on Tuesday that during almost three months of 2023, the various security forces have managed to capture and expel...
March 7th | Given the increase in massacres and femicides that have occurred this year, the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, demanded Monday that the authorities...
March 3rd | Security forces in El Salvador have managed to strike hard blows against drug trafficking throughout the national territory, since June 2019 to date,...
February 28 | A 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and was felt in the Salvadoran...
February 27 | El Salvador has reached a total of 20 days with zero homicides so far this February, according to official data published by the...
February 24 | Despite having used a conservative tone in its most recent pronouncements on the banishment and stripping of the nationality of Nicaraguan political opponents...
February 22 | The Government of Chile offered Chilean residency and nationality to the more than 300 opponents “unjustly expatriated” in Nicaragua, including writers Sergio Ramirez...
February 19 | After nine days away from home, the Urban Search and Rescue Team (USAR) El Salvador and the Humanitarian Rescue Unit (HRU) of the...
February 16 | The US ambassador to El Salvador, William Duncan, promised that the US government will continue to promote the H-2 work visa program, hand...
16 de febrero | Redacción | The Nicaraguan justice on Wednesday withdrew the nationality of at least 94 people critical of President Daniel Ortega, accused of...
February 15 | A total of 35 women were murdered in Honduras in January of this year, 29.6% more than those reported in the same month...
February 15 | A man in his 40’s was rescued this Tuesday after being trapped in the emblematic Reformador tower, located at 2a. calle and 7a....
February 7th | Costa Rica will host the World Compliance Forum in early March, which will address the most innovative tools against financial crime, organizers announced...
February 6th | The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, expressed his government’s full support to Turkey after the violent and fierce earthquake that shook that...
January 26 | By AFP | Alberto Peña | The Costa Rican government announced Wednesday it will renew consular relations with Venezuela — though diplomatic relations,...
January 25 | By AFP | Two sons of former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli were released from prison in the United States Wednesday after serving sentences...
January 12 | By AFP | El Salvador’s legislature on Wednesday extended a state of emergency for 30 days, a measure taken as part of President...
January 11 | By AFP | A Nicaraguan bishop who has been sharply critical of President Daniel Ortega’s government was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for...
January 8th | By AFP | Guatemala received more than $18 billion in remittances mainly from the United States in 2022 — a figure that exceeded...
| By AFP | Salvadoran authorities arrested on Wednesday the mayor of Soyapango, a city currently besieged by the military in its war against drug gangs,...
| By AFP | More than 2,000 soldiers and police surrounded two districts in El Salvador’s capital on Saturday as part of President Nayib Bukele’s war...
| By AFP | Barnaby Chesterman | Thousands of Argentines began massing in the capital from dawn on Tuesday preparing to shower their World Cup heroes...
| By AFP | A small fire broke out Thursday in machines that operate the historic Miraflores Lock on the Panama Canal, which delayed the crossing...
| By AFP | A Nicaraguan bishop who has been a sharp critic of the government of President Daniel Ortega and who has been under house...
| By AFP | Francisco Jara | Rising up through the lush vegetation of Panama’s Caribbean coast, a 125-meter chimney serves as a beacon for helicopters...
| By AFP | Alberto Peña | In one of the most polluted rivers in Central America, a vulnerable crocodile species is thriving despite living in...
| By AFP | Police stepped up their presence on the streets of Honduras Friday after President Xiomara Castro declared a state of emergency to quash...
| By AFP | Francisco Jara | A summit on the international trade in endangered species will decide today whether to ratify a “historic” proposal to...
| By AFP | A 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook El Salvador on Thursday night, with no initial reports of casualties or material damage, Salvadoran authorities said. ...
| By AFP | Tropical Storm Lisa slowed on Thursday after making landfall in Belize, causing flooding and plunging parts of the country into darkness as...
| By AFP | A man in Costa Rica who killed his pet cat Ochi by hurling it out a 6th-floor window received a two-year suspended...
| By AFP | Costa Rican authorities on Sunday confirmed that German millionaire Rainer Schaller and his family were on board a small plane that crashed...
AFP The European Union on Monday announced it was declaring Nicaragua’s representative to the bloc “persona non grata” in retaliation for the expulsion of its ambassador...
AFP The Dutch foreign ministry on Saturday condemned Nicaragua’s decision to sever diplomatic relations over what the central American country called the Netherlands’ “neocolonialist” attitude. Nicaragua’s...
AFP FIFA on Monday suspended the Indian football federation with “immediate effect due to undue influence from third parties”, jeopardising the country’s staging of the U-17...
AFP Rafael Nadal will sit out the group stage of the Davis Cup finals next month after not being named in the Spain team on Monday,...
AFP Facing a bank of screens that look like NASA mission command, technicians counting down to the World Cup in Qatar control the temperature, gates, 15,000...
AFP A court case brought by Kobe Bryant’s widow over graphic photographs taken by first responders at the site of the helicopter crash that killed him...
AFP Six people have been rescued alive from a helicopter crash site in the Panama jungle after a dramatic SOS appeal on social media from one...
AFP Marseille have signed former Arsenal and Barcelona star Alexis Sanchez on a free transfer following his departure from Inter Milan, the French club announced on...
AFP US teen star Coco Gauff, inspired to play tennis by Serena Williams, said Tuesday she was shocked to hear about the impending retirement plans of...
AFP Guatemalan prosecutors on Monday charged journalist Jose Ruben Zamora with crimes including money laundering and blackmail. Zamora was arrested last week and the offices of...
AFP Iconic Brazilian football player and coach Mario Zagallo was discharged from hospital Sunday after a 12-day stay for a respiratory infection, a hospital source said....
AFP Nicaraguan opposition leader Yubrank Suazo, who took part in protests against President Daniel Ortega’s government in 2018, was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in...
AFP The Panamanian government and protesters edged closer Monday to an agreement to end a weeks-long living cost revolt that has blocked roads, interrupted food supplies...
AFP Guatemalan police on Friday arrested journalist Jose Ruben Zamora and raided the offices of El Periodico, a newspaper he founded which has accused key political...
AFP Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton qualified fourth on Saturday for the French Grand Prix but admitted rivals Ferrari and Red Bull are in a “place...
AFP Tour de France champion-in-waiting Jonas Vingegaard insisted Saturday that he and his entire Jumbo-Visma team were racing clean. Vingegaard will be crowned champion on Sunday...
AFP Mexico’s Pumas on Saturday signed Dani Alves after the veteran Brazilian defender left Barcelona for a second time. Alves, regarded by many as the most...
AFP Jurgen Klopp said “Pandora’s box” opened as new Liverpool signing Darwin Nunez scored four goals in a 5-0 friendly thrashing of RB Leipzig on Thursday....
AFP The Panamanian government and protesters opened a fresh round of negotiations Thursday to end more than two weeks of living cost protests that have interrupted...
AFP A Nicaraguan newspaper critical of President Daniel Ortega’s government said Thursday that its journalists, photographers and other staff have left the country for fear of...
AFP Former All Blacks star Carlos Spencer will return to the boxing ring on Thursday, but admitted it was a hard fight to convince his wife...
AFP Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges was charged with domestic violence and child abuse over allegations he assaulted his wife in front of their two children,...
AFP There were fresh demonstrations and roadblocks in Panama on Monday as protest groups turned their backs on a deal signed with the government to end...
AFP Panama’s government and indigenous leaders reached a second deal Sunday to clear all remaining demonstrators from the Panamerican Highway in exchange for lower fuel prices,...
AFP Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was ruing an untimely injury suffered by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain after his side’s 2-0 win over Crystal Palace in Singapore on Friday....
AFP Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp on Thursday laughed off past comments about his unwillingness to spend heavily on a single player, defending the club’s big-money signing...
AFP Raheem Sterling has said he will leave Manchester City “a man” on Wednesday as his transfer to Chelsea edged ever closer. The 27-year-old posted a...
AFP With its sharp claws, scaly skin and venomous bite, Guatemala’s “Sleeping Child” lizard has earned itself few human friends. One of them, forest ranger Juan Alvarado,...
AFP Thousands of Panamanians took to the street again on Tuesday to protest rising inflation and government corruption, despite the announcement of price cuts for fuel...
AFP Tiger Woods will partner US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick in the first two rounds of the British Open in St Andrews this week, while last...
AFP Panama’s president announced a reduction in gasoline prices and freezing of rates for several other essential products Monday in the face of continuing protests against...
AFP Diogo Jota said Monday he was looking to cement a place in Liverpool’s strike force for the new season following the departures of Sadio Mane,...
AFP Cristiano Ronaldo will not travel with Manchester United for their pre-season tour of Thailand and Australia after the Portugal striker was given additional time off...
AFP Kenya’s former football chief Nick Mwendwa will appear in court next week to face fresh charges of misappropriating 38 million shillings ($337,000), prosecutors said on...
AFP Barcelona president Joan Laporta said Wednesday that Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong is not for sale despite rumours of a departure to the Premier League....
AFP Barcelona on Monday announced the signings of Ivory Coast midfielder Franck Kessie and Denmark defender Andreas Christensen on free transfers. Kessie joins from Italian champions...
AFP Tropical Storm Bonnie was upgraded to a category one hurricane on Sunday as it swept towards Mexico after killing three people in El Salvador and...
AFP Argentinian coach Jorge Sampaoli said on Friday he had left Marseille because of differences with the club’s hierarchy after guiding them back to the Champions...
AFP Three supporters of Argentine football giants Boca Juniors have been arrested in Brazil, accused of racism and making a Nazi salute during their team’s match...
AFP Three-time Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet on Wednesday apologised “wholeheartedly” to Lewis Hamilton after using a racially offensive term to describe the Mercedes star....
AFP Former Manchester City captain Fernandinho has returned to his first club and signed for Athletico Paranaense, the Brazilian club said on Monday. The 37-year-old midfielder,...
AFP US basketball star Brittney Griner, who is in detention in Russia on drug charges, will go on trial in Russia on July 1, a court...
AFP American artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez said she was “shocked” when she saw the “beautiful” AFP photographs showing her sinking unconscious to the bottom of the...
AFP Dozens of turtles, dolphins and other marine species have been found dead on Guatemala’s Pacific coast, prompting an official investigation, authorities said Thursday. As many...
AFP World number one Daniil Medvedev lost to Roberto Bautista Agut in the quarter-finals of the Mallorca Open on Thursday, while second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas advanced...
AFP Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs will return to the 100 metres at next week’s Diamond League meeting in Stockholm, Italy’s athletics federation (FIDAL) said on...
AFP Napoli are being investigated for potential false accounting in the transfer deal which brought Nigeria’s Victor Osimhen to the Serie A club, prosecutors confirmed on...
AFP The President of Panama Laurentino Cortizo said on Monday that he has blood cancer, although the 69-year-old said he feels well and is in “good...
AFP A senior executive of a hydroelectric dam in Honduras was handed a prison sentence of more than 22 years on Monday for his role in...
AFP Lewis Hamilton said he was “ecstatic” on Sunday after claiming his second podium of the season with a strong third place ahead of Mercedes team-mate...
AFP El Salvador has arrested nearly 42,000 suspected gang members since President Nayib Bukele launched a “war” in March on criminal groups terrorizing the country, the...
AFP Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has claimed Kylian Mbappe decided to stay at Paris Saint-Germain because he was “confused” after being put under intense “political...
AFP Jose Mourinho will return to Camp Nou in August after Barcelona confirmed on Wednesday they will face Mourinho’s Roma in a pre-season friendly. Mourinho was...
AFP Real Madrid’s new signing Aurelien Tchouameni said Kylian Mbappe asked if he would sign for Paris Saint-Germain, as the 22-year-old was unveiled at Madrid’s training...
AFP Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega urged parliament to ratify a decree allowing foreign troops, including from Russia and the United States, to carry out joint humanitarian...
AFP At least 15 people have died in a dozen mudslides caused by heavy rains that have fallen since early May in Guatemala, where more than...
AFP Marcelo said an emotional goodbye to Real Madrid on Monday as the most decorated player in the club’s history but insisted he has no plans...
AFP Markus Anfang, who was banned from football for using fake documents to falsely claim he was vaccinated against Covid, said Friday he is grateful for...
AFP Luka Modric said he still has the same motivation as when he arrived at Real Madrid after the 36-year-old signed a new one-year contract with...
AFP Bayern Munich have doubled down by again telling Robert Lewandowski that he cannot leave before his contract expires next year. The 33-year-old Poland star has...
AFP Pumas centre Santiago Chocobares is unlikely to play again this year following surgery on his left knee, the Argentina rugby federation announced on Tuesday. The...
AFP US cycling great Greg LeMond, a three-time Tour de France winner, has revealed he is receiving treatment for leukemia. “I have been diagnosed with Chronic...
AFP Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James has become the first active player in NBA history with a net worth of $1 billion, Forbes magazine reported on...
AFP Brazilian football legend Pele called Wednesday for Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his army’s invasion of Ukraine, as the war-torn country’s national team was...
AFP Manchester United and England defender Harry Maguire says he can accept criticism of his performances but a bomb threat he received earlier this year crossed...
AFP Nicaragua’s parliament on Tuesday dissolved 83 non-governmental organizations including the country’s language academy, accusing them of having violated a law on “foreign agents.” Dominated by...
AFP Real Madrid’s France star Karim Benezema deserves to win the Ballon d’Or, according to seven-time laureate Lionel Messi. Benzema was crucial in Madrid’s Champions League...
AFP Rafael Nadal said on Sunday he had to complete his journey to the Stade de France to watch Real Madrid’s Champions League final against Liverpool...
AFP UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin on Friday encouraged leagues to “worry about their own situation” in response to remarks by La Liga chief Javier Tebas after...
AFP Swedish veteran Zlatan Ibrahimovic said Thursday he endured six months of sleepless nights due to a painful knee because he was determined to fulfil his...
AFP The Finnish MotoGP scheduled for July 10 has been cancelled, the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) announced on Wednesday, citing the geopolitical situation in the region...
AFP The BBC was forced to apologise to Manchester United fans on Tuesday after a message appeared on their news ticker labelling the Premier League club...
AFP Relatives of more than 180 jailed opponents of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government on Monday denounced the ill treatment they said had been inflicted on...
AFP Manchester City and France footballer Benjamin Mendy denied nine sexual offences against six young women as he appeared in court on Monday. The 27-year-old player...
AFP For the first time ever there will be women referees at a men’s World Cup finals after FIFA revealed the list for the quadrennial showpiece...
AFP Nicaraguan opposition leader Yubrank Suazo, who took part in protests against President Daniel Ortega’s government in 2018, was violently arrested on Wednesday, a local human...
AFP Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Idrissa Gana Gueye has been ordered by the French football federation’s ethics board to answer accusations he missed a game to avoid...
AFP Guatemala’s President Alejandro Giammattei said Tuesday he will skip next month’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, after Washington sanctioned his top prosecutor over...
AFP Nicaraguan former deputy foreign minister Victor Hugo Tinoco, jailed along with several other opponents of the regime of President Daniel Ortega, has been moved to...
AFP Boston Celtics star Marcus Smart is a fitness doubt for Tuesday’s opening NBA Eastern Conference finals playoff clash with the Miami Heat after suffering a...
AFP El Salvador has arrested more than 30,000 suspected gang members since President Nayib Bukele in March launched his “war” on criminal groups terrorizing the country,...
AFP Kylian Mbappe says he has “almost” made up his mind about whether to stay at Paris Saint-Germain or leave the French champions for Real Madrid....
AFP A Russian court on Friday extended the pre-trial detention on drug charges of US basketball star Brittney Griner, state media reported. Griner, a two-time Olympic...
AFP Suzuki announced on Thursday they want to quit MotoGP and are holding talks with the championship promoters Dorna over breaking their contract. “Suzuki Motor Corporation...
AFP Basketball Hall of Famer Bob Lanier died on Tuesday after a short illness, the NBA said. He was 73. Lanier, who spent 14 seasons in...
AFP Memphis star guard Ja Morant has a strong possibility of missing Monday’s fourth game of the team’s NBA playoff series against Golden State, Grizzlies coach...
AFP Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the Italian Open in Rome to rest an Achilles injury ahead of the French Open, the WTA said on Monday....
AFP Costa Rica’s new president Rodrigo Chaves, elected despite a cloud of sexual harassment allegations, took the oath of office Sunday with promises to revive the...
AFP Economist and former finance minister Rodrigo Chaves is to be sworn in Sunday as Costa Rica’s president for a four-year mandate focused on reinvigorating one...
AFP Novak Djokovic reached his seventh Madrid semi-final on Friday, easing past Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 6-3, 6-4 to record a 30th career victory in the Spanish...
AFP Brooklyn Nets guard Ben Simmons will have surgery to address a herniated disc in his back, the NBA team said Wednesday. “After consultation with multiple...
AFP Costa Rican President-elect Rodrigo Chaves said Tuesday that his government would not ratify the Escazu Agreement that establishes protection for environmentalists. The treaty was the...
AFP Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold admitted Villarreal made life “really difficult” as Jurgen Klopp’s side battled through to a third Champions League final in five years...
AFP Costa Rican President-elect Rodrigo Chaves said Tuesday that his government would not ratify the Escazu Agreement that establishes protection for environmentalists. The treaty was the...
AFP Thomas Mueller has extended his contract with Bayern Munich until 2024, it was announced on Tuesday, with the Germany international set to spend his entire...
AFP Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers has hailed Jose Mourinho as “one of the greats” as he prepares to pit his wits against the Roma boss in...
AFP Fernandinho says Manchester City will aim to “hurt” Real Madrid in their own backyard after winning the thrilling first leg of their Champions League semi-final...
AFP The Charlotte Hornets fired head coach James Borrego on Friday, a week after the team failed to advance from the NBA’s play-in tournament to the...
AFP Costa Rica’s president elect Rodrigo Chaves publicly apologized on Monday to two former World Bank colleagues who accused him of sexual harassment. Economist Chaves was...
AFP Ukrainian footballer Alan Aussi will play for Borussia Dortmund in Tuesday’s benefit game against his parent club Dynamo Kyiv, but admits his thoughts are often...
AFP Ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez made his first appearance before a US judge Friday following his extradition to America to face drug trafficking charges. The...
AFP Nicaragua on Sunday closed the offices of the Organization of American States in the capital Managua and brought forward its planned withdrawal from the bloc,...
AFP El Salvador’s lawmakers on Sunday extended a state of emergency for another month at the request of President Nayib Bukele, after it was imposed in...
AFP At least six people were killed and four injured during clashes between armed alleged gang members at an indoor football match in Guatemala, police said,...
AFP El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele asked lawmakers to extend the country’s state of emergency for a month on Sunday, as police said that more than...
AFP Brazilian football great Pele was discharged Thursday from the hospital where he was admitted four days earlier for colon cancer treatment, the establishment announced. The...
AFP El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said Friday that police and soldiers have arrested more than 15,000 suspected gang members in under a month in a...
AFP Cristiano Ronaldo expressed his gratitude to Liverpool fans for their show of support after his newborn baby son died. The fierce rivalry between Manchester United...
AFP Nicaragua’s parliament on Wednesday banned 25 NGOs critical of the government, including a human rights commission that documented state repression of a mass 2018 demonstration....
AFP US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday sought greater cooperation in Latin America on migration, taking on a cause of growing political headaches that...
AFP Brazilian football great Pele has been hospitalized in Sao Paulo since Monday as part of his treatment for colon cancer, the medical center that treats...
AFP Pep Guardiola has refused to respond to reports that Manchester City are close to completing a blockbuster deal for Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland. City...
AFP Prosecutors investigating the 2020 death of Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona have asked that the medical staff who treated him be tried for negligent homicide....
AFP The United States homeland security secretary signed a deal to address migration in Central America during a visit to Costa Rica. The country is one...
AFP Forced into hiding after targeting a drug cartel with alleged ties to the then-government, Honduras’s hounded police chief-turned interior minister has vowed to extract criminal...
AFP El Salvador’s Congress on Tuesday approved sentences of 10 to 15 years for those who spread gang-related messages in the media. The reform to the...
AFP Costa Rica aims to improve its deal with the IMF, president-elect Rodrigo Chaves said Monday, a day after his election as the Central American nation’s...
AFP More than 6,000 gang members have been detained in the first nine days of a state of emergency in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele said...
AFP Honduran authorities on Friday seized properties, financial holdings and other assets belonging to ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is awaiting extradition to the United States...
AFP President Nayib Bukele on Thursday called on parents to keep their children out of gangs to avoid “prison or death”, a day after El Salvador...
AFP The manager of a Nicaraguan opposition newspaper was sentenced to nine years’ jail for money laundering Thursday, his outlet reported, becoming the latest opponent of...
AFP El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele issued an ultimatum Monday to gangs considered responsible for dozens of homicides in three days, threatening to increase punishments on...
AFP It took Ana Muller half an hour to trek to the peak of the Cerro Negro volcano, a small effort given the reward on offer...
AFP El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Saturday urged lawmakers to declare a state of emergency after authorities arrested dozens of gang members over a recent...
AFP A Nicaraguan court has found the owner of a prominent newspaper known for criticizing the government of President Daniel Ortega guilty of money laundering charges,...
AFP Nicaragua’s main opposition figure and would-be presidential challenger to Daniel Ortega was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison after being found guilty of financial...
AFP Guatemalan anti-corruption judge Erika Aifan said on Monday she had resigned out of fear for her life following “pressure and threats.” Local media said Aifan...
AFP A judge in Honduras granted the extradition of former president Juan Orlando Hernandez to the United States, where he is wanted for alleged drug trafficking,...
AFP The United States homeland security secretary on Tuesday signed a deal to address migration in Central America during a visit to Costa Rica. The country...
AFP Guatemala’s conservative-dominated parliament on Tuesday shelved a controversial law that ramped up prison sentences for women who choose to have an abortion and banned gay...
AFP Honduras on Friday clarified that existing open-pit mining contracts remain in effect, after President Xiomara Castro said she was banning the practice. Castro on March...
AFP A judge in El Salvador ordered the arrest Friday of former president Alfredo Cristiani for alleged links to the murder of six Jesuit priests and...
AFP Nicaragua’s main opposition figure and would-be presidential challenger to Daniel Ortega has been found guilty of financial crimes, a family member said Friday. Cristiana Chamorro,...
AFP Honduras’ former national police chief Juan Carlos Bonilla, who is sought by the United States for drug trafficking, was detained Wednesday, authorities said. “‘El Tigre’...
AFP Two subsidiaries of Swiss mining company Solway Investment Group hid reports of pollution in an indigenous area of northeastern Guatemala, an international consortium of media...
AFP Nicaragua has sentenced seven more opposition figures, including three former presidential hopefuls, to up to 13 years in prison, a humanitarian organization said. Courts in...
AFP Honduras has repealed a controversial secrecy law in a bid to battle corruption following a late-night parliamentary session Tuesday. The law, which classified public documents...
AFP Lawyers for Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, wanted on drug trafficking charges in the United States, asked Monday that he be granted house arrest while...
AFP A 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck western Guatemala early Wednesday caused damage affecting nearly 25,000 people, and caused three people to suffer fatal heart attacks, authorities...
AFP Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, detained pending a decision on his extradition to the United States on drug trafficking charges, will appear Wednesday before a...
AFP A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck western Guatemala early Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, though no injuries had yet been reported. The epicenter of the...
AFP The United States has asked Honduras to extradite former president Juan Orlando Hernandez who is suspected of drug trafficking, a Honduran official who declined to...
AFP Forensic experts on Monday started exhuming the remains of at least 16 victims, mainly children, of a massacre committed by soldiers in El Salvador 41...
AFP Former guerrilla Hugo Torres Jimenez, one of 46 opposition figures jailed since last year by the Nicaraguan government of President Daniel Ortega, died on Saturday,...
AFP Three key opposition figures in Nicaragua including a former deputy foreign minister have been found guilty of “undermining national integrity,” a rights group said Friday,...
AFP Seven opposition activists convicted of “undermining national integrity” in Nicaragua have received prison sentences of up to 13 years, a human rights group said Thursday....
AFP An El Salvadorian woman was freed from prison Wednesday, after the remaining 20 years of her 30-year sentence for having an abortion were commuted. “We celebrate...
AFP The eviction of a hundred Lenca indigenous families in Honduras was stopped Wednesday at the request of President Xiomara Castro after dozens of police officers...
AFP A legislative crisis that threatened the presidency of Honduras’ first woman President Xiomara Castro, was resolved on Monday after rebel lawmaker Jorge Calix signed a...
AFP Costa Ricans voted for a new president Sunday from a crowded field of candidates, with a center-left former leader ahead of the pack with about...
AFP Xiomara Castro, who last month became the first woman to win the presidency of Honduras, said Sunday that she was infected with Covid-19 but will...
AFP Honduras’ new president, leftist Xiomara Castro, who came to power promising to fight corruption, granted amnesty Saturday to many officials who served in her husband’s...
AFP The government of new Honduras President Xiomara Castro said Thursday it would maintain diplomatic relations with Taiwan but that it has already resumed contact with...
AFP A Nicaraguan court Thursday found two prominent opposition figures guilty of “conspiracy,” according to a human rights organization which condemned the trial as “null and...
AFP Panamanian authorities announced Thursday that as part of an operation to disrupt a sex trafficking ring, 10 children were rescued and three people in Panama...
AFP El Salvador’s government on Monday defended the country’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender, rejecting calls from the International Monetary Fund to change course. The...
AFP The crisis in Honduras’s Congress — where rival factions of new President Xiomara Castro’s left-wing Libre party have elected separate leaders — headed to the...
AFP Leftist Xiomara Castro was sworn in Thursday as the first woman president of Honduras, vowing to reform the crime- and poverty-stricken nation into a “socialist...
AFP Honduras’ president-elect Xiomara Castro made a last ditch attempt late Wednesday to solve a congressional crisis with hours left before her inauguration. Last week two...
