Tag: Central America
Attorney: US makes concessions to ease asylum restrictions
SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration has agreed to let about 250 people a day through border crossings with Mexico to seek refuge in...
Mexico rushes teacher vaccines to reopen schools
MEXICO CITY — Mexico mounted a final push Tuesday to get all of the country’s 3 million school teachers vaccinated so that it can...
Insider Q&A: Sophie Zhang, Facebook whistleblower
Sophie Zhang worked as a Facebook data scientist for nearly three years before was she fired in the fall of 2020. On her final...
Panama cautious after day without COVID-19 deaths
PANAMA CITY — Panama raised capacity on public transportation across the country Monday, a day after celebrating the first day in 14 months without...
Mexican president apologizes for 1911 massacre of Chinese
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president presented an apology Monday for a 1911 massacre in which over 300 Chinese people were slaughtered by revolutionary troops...
Authorities: 3 arrested in taxi driver’s slaying in Georgia
ATLANTA — Three people wanted on murder charges in the death of a Georgia taxi driver last month have been arrested in Mexico and...
Salvadoran ex-cop nabbed for 2 murders; 10 more bodies found
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A search at the home of a former policeman in El Salvador arrested last week for the murder of...
‘There was no going back’: Migrants send kids into US alone
LA JOYA, Texas — Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico...
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though...
Candidate for northern Mexico city mayor’s post killed
MEXICO CITY — A mayoral candidate in a city in northern Mexico was killed Thursday, the latest in a string of attacks that have...
