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The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on three Nicaraguan officials over their support for leftist President Daniel Ortega’s government. President Donald Trump’s administration has...

Report: Ortega media enrich his family, entrench his hold on Nicaragua

November 24, 2020

Nicaragua

In early 2010, Nicaragua’s Canal 8, an independent television network, had a new owner. Details of the deal – the identity of the buyer, the...

Tropical Storm Iota strengthens as it approaches Central America

November 15, 2020

Central America

Tropical Storm Iota is strengthening as it barrels toward Central America, with authorities urging communities to evacuate before it unleashes “life-threatening” flooding across a region...

Central America reels from tropical storm Eta, as death toll surpasses 100

November 6, 2020

Central America

The death toll from the calamitous storm Eta in Central America soared on Friday after the Guatemalan military reached a remote mountainous village where torrential...

Eta’s rains and flooding wreak ‘shocking’ devastation in Central America, 18 dead

November 6, 2020

Central America

Storm Eta unleashed torrential rains and catastrophic flooding in Central America, killing at least 18 people and turning streets into waist-high water channels, though 60...

Woman jailed under El Salvador’s harsh abortion law walks free from prison

September 23, 2020

El Salvador

A Salvadoran woman whom activists say was falsely accused of homicide after suffering a stillbirth has been freed from prison in a case that has...

Salvador vet’s painstaking surgery helps mutilated bird fly again

September 17, 2020

El Salvador

Veterinarians working for El Salvador's environment ministry hold a Roadside Hawk (Rupornis magnirostris) after performing a feather transplant to enable it to fly again Marvin...

‘Justice prevailed:’ Salvadoran ex-colonel gets 133 years for priest slayings

September 12, 2020

El Salvador

Spain’s High Court sentenced a former army colonel from El Salvador on Friday to 133 years in prison for the murder of five Spanish Jesuit...

Salvador government probed over ‘negotiations’ with crime gang

September 9, 2020

El Salvador

Members of the "Mara 18" and "MS-13" gangs at El Salvador's Izalco maximum security prison in September 2020 Yuri CORTEZ AFP Prosecutors in El Salvador...

El Salvador prosecutor says he will investigate allegations of government pacts with gangs

September 5, 2020

El Salvador

El Salvador’s attorney general on Friday said he plans to investigate allegations that the government of President Nayib Bukele is negotiating with members of a...

Relatives bury Nicaraguan laborer whose death sparked migrant-work debate in Europe

August 29, 2020

Central America Mourning Nicaragua

Grieving relatives in northern Nicaragua on Friday buried the body of a Nicaraguan agricultural laborer whose death from a heat stroke in Spain this month...

Why El Salvadoran sisters are attending online classes up a tree

August 28, 2020

Central America Education El Salvador

University students Matilde (L) and Marlene Pimentel climb a tree on top of a hill to get a strong internet signal in order to take...

Panama abandons Cuban doctors plan under US pressure

August 27, 2020

Cuba Panama United States

Panamanian president Laurentino Cortizo said his government was "trying to come to an agreement" with Cuba to bring in a team of doctors to fight...

UK to remove Belgium, Andorra and Bahamas from safe travel list

August 6, 2020

Andorra Bahamas Belgium Europe United Kingdom

Passengers arriving into Britain from Belgium, the Bahamas and Andorra will need to quarantine for 14 days due to concerns over rising COVID-19 infection rates,...

Is luxury Dominican resort the refuge for Spain’s Juan Carlos?

August 4, 2020

Dominican Republic Spain

The luxurious Casa de Campo complex in the Dominican Republic is used to welcoming the rich and famous Erika SANTELICES AFP Casa de Campo in...

Politics scuppers El Salvador deal for $250 million IDB loan

August 2, 2020

El Salvador

FILE PHOTO: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele speaks at a news conference during a nationwide quarantine as El Salvador's government undertakes steadily stricter measures to...

Hurricane Isaias lashes Bahamas on path to virus-hit Florida

August 1, 2020

Bahamas Central America

Locals try to rescue their belonging after the overflow of the Magua river caused by heavy rains caused during Isaias storm in the city of...

Nicaraguans stuck at Costa Rica border after Managua bars re-entry on virus fears

July 24, 2020

Costa Rica Nicaragua

Hundreds of Nicaraguans are stuck in limbo between Costa Rica and Nicaragua after their homeland refused to allow them back without proof that they are...

Costa Rica to reopen two airports to tourists

July 24, 2020

Costa Rica

Costa Rica will reopen two of its airports on Aug. 1 to tourists from the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada, the government said...

Ex-Salvadoran defense minister arrested for suspected role in gang truce

July 24, 2020

El Salvador

FILE PHOTO - El Salvador's former Minister of Defense David Munguia Payes speaks during a news conference at the National Congress in San Salvador, El...

Masked Ortega marks 41st anniversary of Nicaragua revolution

July 20, 2020

Nicaragua Politics

President Daniel Ortega and his wife Vice President Rosario Murillo wore masks at celebrations marking the 41st anniversary of the Sandinista revolution but the leader...

Bahamas bans tourists from US, cites coronavirus concerns

July 20, 2020

Bahamas Central America

Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis announced over the weekend that the country will block American tourists from entry as U.S. coronavirus numbers continue to surge. He also...

El Salvador to postpone second phase of economic reopening, president says

July 20, 2020

COVID-19 El Salvador

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele speaks at a news conference during a nationwide quarantine as El Salvador's government undertakes steadily stricter measures to prevent the...

7 Panama youths found brutally murdered near lake

July 19, 2020

Central America Panama

Panamanian authorities on Saturday were investigating the murder of seven young people near a lake about 80 km (50 miles) north of the capital, a...

Panama extends suspension of international flights by a month due to coronavirus

July 18, 2020

Panama

Panama’s civil aviation authority said on Friday it will extend a suspension of international flights by another month due to the coronavirus crisis. The additional...

US slaps sanctions on son of Nicaragua president

July 18, 2020

Nicaragua United States

A man in Managua walks in April 2020 by a mobile health clinic displaying a picture of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice...

Twins born in London face deportation to different countries

July 9, 2020

Dominican Republic Grenada United Kingdom

London-born twins who have never left the UK are facing deportation to different countries in the Caribbean after their jail terms for grievous bodily harm....

El Salvador murder rate plummets; study says gangs may have informal pact with government

July 8, 2020

El Salvador

Homicides in El Salvador fell over 50% in President Nayib Bukeleâ€™s first year in office, with officials citing tougher enforcement, while a study on Wednesday...

U.S. charges ex-Panama president’s sons with bribery, money laundering

July 7, 2020

Panama United States

Luis Enrique and Ricardo, sons of former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, are seen after being detained to face extradition to the U.S. on money laundering...

Dominican ruling party poised to lose power in virus-scarred vote

July 6, 2020

COVID-19 Dominican Republic Politics

The Dominican Republicâ€™s ruling party is on track to lose power after 16 years, according to the early results of elections scarred by the coronavirus...

El Salvador delays next steps in reopening economy as COVID-19 cases rise

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020

Central America COVID-19 El Salvador

FILE PHOTO: A municipality healthcare worker checks the temperature of a resident during a house-to-house medical campaign while conducting contact tracing amid the coronavirus disease...

Panama records 765 new coronavirus cases, 11 more deaths

July 1, 2020

Central America Panama

Panama registered 765 new cases of coronavirus infection on Tuesday, taking the total number in the country to 33,550, while deaths climbed by 11 to...

Costa Rica to accept tourists from countries with virus under control

June 27, 2020

Central America Costa Rica COVID-19

Costa Rica will will open its international airports on Aug. 1 to tourists from countries that have “controlled transmission” of coronavirus, Health Minister Daniel Salas...

WHO director for Americas says 226,000 have died of COVID-19 in region

June 25, 2020

Brazil Central America COVID-19 Mexico North America South America United States World

3 minutes Nearly half of all COVID-19 cases globally can be found in the Americas and the numbers continue to climb, the World Health Organization’s...

Panama exhumes 19 bodies in search of victims of 1989 U.S. invasion

June 21, 2020

Central America Panama

An employee works to exhume bodies at a private cemetery as part of a search for victims of the 1989 invasion by the U.S. military...

El Salvador’s president says economic re-opening to begin June 16

June 14, 2020

El Salvador

FILE PHOTO: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele speaks at a news conference during a nationwide quarantine as El Salvador's government undertakes steadily stricter measures to...

Coronavirus hitting the Americas hardest says World Health Organization

June 13, 2020

Central America COVID-19 North America South America World

The Americas are bearing the brunt of the global coronavirus pandemic at present, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, with North and South...

Nigerians react to former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke ‘not being extraditable’ after acquiring Dominican citizenship

June 8, 2020

Dominican Republic Nigeria

Nigerians have taken to social media to react to report of former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke 'not being extraditable' after acquiring Dominican citizenship. The Economic and...

Revealed: Diezani now Dominican citizen

June 7, 2020

Dominican Republic Nigeria North America

4-5 minutes Fresh evidence has now emerged in Nigeria of how former Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison Madueke, plotted and secured a foreign country’s citizenship...

Salvadoran president vetoes coronavirus law again – legal team

June 7, 2020

El Salvador

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has for the second time vetoed emergency legislation passed to regulate the Central American country’s coronavirus policy and usher in a...

Deadly Tropical Storm Amanda hits El Salvador, Guatemala

June 1, 2020

El Salvador

3-4 minutes AFP / Marvin RECINOS At least 10 people were killed when Tropical Storm Amanda struck El Salvador, unleashing heavy rain across the country...

Costa Rica to extend border closure until June 30

May 30, 2020

Central America Costa Rica

Costa Rica will extend the closure of its borders until June 30, Health Minister Daniel Salas said on Friday, prolonging one measure in its effort...

Salvadoran leader says he takes drug touted by Trump for coronavirus

May 27, 2020

Central America El Salvador

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele speaks at a news conference during a nationwide quarantine as El Salvador's government undertakes steadily stricter measures to prevent the...