Tag: Central America
Texas governor: State, crowdsourcing will fund border wall
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that he will use $250 million in state money and crowdsourced financing to build more...
Donated US vaccines arrive for Mexican border cities
MEXICO CITY — Mexico received 1.35 million doses of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines donated by the United States Tuesday and Mexican officials said...
Mexico’s Zapatista rebels complain they can’t get passports
MEXICO CITY — Indigenous rebels of Mexico’s Zapatista movement complained Tuesday that the Mexican government has made it hard for them to get passports...
Northern Mexico bus accident leaves 12 dead, 10 injured
CIUDAD VICTORIA — A bus carrying patients for treatment of chronic illnesses flipped in northern Mexico near the U.S. border Tuesday, killing 12 people...
OAS condemns Nicaragua’s pursuit of political opponents
NEW YORK — The Organization of American States' Permanent Council approved a resolution Tuesday condemning the arrest in Nicaragua of presidential pre-candidates, restrictions imposed...
Nicaragua stages unprecedented roundup of opposition leaders
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaraguan police have arrested another opposition politician, bringing to six the number detained over the weekend.
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Costa Rica moves on massive public corruption investigation
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rican authorities executed dozens of searches and arrests Monday as part of a sprawling public corruption investigation centered...
Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids
Associated Press — Paramedics were called regularly to treat children suffering from panic attacks so severe their hands would constrict into balls and their...
Shop owner’s plea as California reopens: ‘I need customers’
LOS ANGELES — During the darkest days of the coronavirus pandemic, Martha Medina would occasionally slip into her shuttered store on Los Angeles’ oldest...
Nicaragua arrests more opposition leaders in crackdown
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has arrested an opposition leader and police surrounded the home of another on Sunday....
