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Central American and Mexican families mourn the workers lost in the Baltimore bridge collapse
The workers lost in the Baltimore bridge collapse all hailed from Mexico or Central America before they settled in the Maryland area.
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Honduras ex-first lady says presidential bid not meant to protect herself after husband’s conviction
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Former president of Honduras convicted in US of aiding drug traffickers
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Hondurans are glued to their former president’s drug trafficking trial in a New York courtroom
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El Salvador’s former leftist strongholds contemplate party’s demise
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Brother of Honduran missing worker in Baltimore bridge collapse is praying that he’s still alive
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2 buses collide head-on in western Honduras, killing 17 people and injuring 14
Authorities in Honduras say two buses collided head-on in a village in the Central American country’s west, and 17 people were killed and 14 were injured, four of them seriously.
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At trial’s start, ex-Honduran president cast as corrupt politician by US but a hero by his lawyer
A prosecutor has described former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, at the start of his trial, as a corrupt politician who let his country’s biggest drug traffickers fuel his rise to power.
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Honduran ex-president accused of running his country as a ‘narco-state’ stands trial in NYC
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is facing charges that he ran his impoverished Central American nation as a “narco-state.”
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Ex-head of Honduras police pleads guilty to drug trafficking; darkens outlook for ex-president
For years, Juan Carlos Bonilla, better known as “El Tigre,” was a feared figure in Honduras. His roots were in the military and he brought that bearing to the National Police that he ultimately led.
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A caravan of migrants from Honduras who were heading to the US dissolves in Guatemala
The Guatemalan Migration Institute reports that a caravan of some 500 migrants that departed northern Honduras in hopes of reaching the United States has dissolved after crossing the border into Guatemala.
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Honduran opposition party leader flees arrest after being stopped in airport before traveling to US
The president of Honduras’ main opposition party fled an international airport breaking through a parking gate with his pickup truck after immigration agents stopped him for carrying two passports before he boarded a flight to the United States.
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Honduras recalls ambassador to Israel as it condemns civilian Palestinian toll in war
Honduras has recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations as it condemns what it calls genocide and other serious violations of international law in the Gaza Strip.
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Special mosquitoes are being bred to fight dengue. How the old enemies are now becoming allies
Preventing dengue fever has long meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now scientists are promoting a new way to control the disease with the help of mosquitoes.
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Honduras wants to build West’s only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside
Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there.
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Border Patrol fails to assess medical needs for children with preexisting conditions, report says
A report says Border Patrol does not have a protocol in place for assessing the medical needs of children with preexisting conditions.
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A wave of political turbulence is rolling through Guatemala and other Central American countries
Central America is experiencing a wave of unrest that is remarkable even for a region whose history is riddled with turbulence.
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Honduras copies El Salvador’s playbook in anti-gang crackdown
Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele.
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Honduras adopts El Salvador-style tactics in anti-gang crackdown on prison inmates
Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last week that killed 11 people.
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Massacre of 11 in pool hall in Honduras prompts president to impose security measures
Gunmen burst into a pool hall in northern Honduras and opened fire, killing 11 people and prompting President Xiomara Castro to announce security measures including curfews in the area amid a wave of drug trafficking-linked violence.
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Hondurans see little hope for nation’s prisons as details of cold-blooded massacre emerge
Authorities in Honduras are beginning to hand over to relatives the hacked, burned corpses of 46 women killed in the worst riot at a women’s prison in recent memory.
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Gang slaughtered 46 women at Honduran prison with machetes, guns and flammable liquid, official says
An official says that gang members inside a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other women inmates by spraying them with gunfire, hacking them with machetes and then locking survivors in their calls and dousing them with flammable liquid.
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41 women die in grisly riot in Honduran prison that president blames on ‘mara’ gangs
A grisly riot at a women’s prison in Honduras has left at least 41 women dead, most burned to death, in violence the country’s president blames on “mara” street gangs that often wield broad power inside penitentiaries.
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Environmental activist shot to death in Honduras 6 months after activist brother slain
An environmental activist has been reported killed by unidentified gunmen in northern Honduras six months after his younger brother and another activist were slain in a similar attack.
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Biden to extend legal status for 4 nationalities, reversing Trump but irking some
The Biden administration says it will extend legal status by 18 months for more than 300,000 people from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.
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Takeaways from AP’s report on secretive networks helping women circumvent Honduras’ abortion ban
Honduras has one of the world’s strictest abortion bans, with a constitutional prohibition on terminating pregnancy in all cases.
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Burner phones, aliases, code words: How secret networks help women circumvent Honduras’ abortion ban
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Inside a little wooden house among the pine and oak forests of western Honduras’ coffee-growing mountains, a woman opened a tiny package of pills, delivered to a nearby town.
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Mother of Honduran migrant teen who died in US custody says he had epilepsy but wasn’t seriously ill
The mother of a 17-year-old Honduran migrant who died in U.S. custody says her son had epilepsy but showed no signs of being seriously ill before he left for the United States.
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Lives immigrants built in Texas town shattered by shooting
The beautiful life Wilson Garcia, an Honduran immigrant, had built for his wife and three children was shattered when his neighbor burst into his Cleveland, Texas, home on April 28 and fatally shot five people, including his wife and 9-year-old son.
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Prosecutor: Suspected Texas gunman tried to escape to Mexico
Authorities say a man suspected of killing five of his neighbors in Texas hid out in a house just 20 miles away from the slayings while he and his domestic partner plotted his escape to Mexico.
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Victims in Texas mass shielded baby; 9-year-old loved soccer
A shooting that killed a 9-year-old boy and four adults at a home in rural Texas has left a trail of anguish and sorrow that extends to Honduras and includes two newly orphaned children.
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Honduras establishes ties with China after Taiwan break
Honduras has established diplomatic ties with China after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which is increasingly isolated and now recognized by only 13 sovereign states.
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Taiwan recalls ambassador as Honduras switches ties to China
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says it has recalled its ambassador to Honduras amid moves by the Central American country to establish formal diplomatic ties with China.
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Honduras ditching Taiwan raises larger geopolitical concerns
Honduras’ decision to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of China is yet another sign of growing Chinese influence in Latin America.
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Honduras will seek ties with China, spurning Taiwan
Honduras President Xiomara Castro announced Tuesday that her government will seek to establish diplomatic relations with China, which would imply severing relations with Taiwan.
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MS-13 gang members in Central America sanctioned by US
The United States Treasury Department sanctioned two members of the powerful Mara Salvatrucha on Wednesday, part of ongoing efforts by the U.S. to crack down on the gang commonly known as MS-13.
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