The makeshift houses made of black plastic and bamboo line the road cutting through the lush green valley in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. Rumors of a pending eviction permeate the small ...

Joe Biden stepping into the White House as president has broken the pact formed between the United States and Central America during the Trump administration: U.S. silence about corruption and the ...

This is an adaptation of an article originally published in Plaza Pública as COVID19: La educación a distancia en un país con poco internet On Saturday, March 14, Guatemalan president Alejandro ...

It was a few days after Bukele announced a “state of exception” in El Salvador that the human rights ombudsman (PDDH) sounded the alarm, noting the abhorrent quarantine conditions for arrivals in the ...

The massive crowds of people in the streets last Monday, trying to collect their $300 dollar subsidy meant to compensate for their lost income from the COVID-19 emergency, has laid bare the miserable ...

Costa Rica has built a global brand as a standard-bearer for biodiversity, reforestation, and ecotourism – but when it comes to its fight against the climate crisis, a reality check is no further away ...

Nayib Bukele ended his first year in office on June 1 besieged by the Covid-19 pandemic and reeling from the devastation of Tropical Storm Amanda, the latter of which, last weekend alone, left over a ...

The Attorney General’s investigations into multi-million dollar irregularities in pandemic-related spending by government ministries have sparked a showdown with the National Civil Police (PNC), ...

El ejército salvadoreño compró diez vehículos militares Yagu por $2.6 millones a la empresa de un congresista del partido Morena, de México, según una investigación de Mexicanos contra la Corrupción.

Yet according to the Guatemalan government’s new health alert system, Guatemala City and many other municipalities remain on the highest alert level due to the pandemic. The country is opening even as ...

“Since the fishing is no longer any good, he went to work in construction to support his three children. But the oldest one was already in high school and he couldn’t make enough money to support his ...

Fidel Zavala, la primera persona en denunciar a Osiris Luna y a directores de cárceles por tortura, regresó a la prisión de Mariona el 2 de abril. Enfrenta una nueva acusación por el desalojo de 250 ...