Tag: Central America

Coffee crisis in Central America fuels record exodus north (Maytaal Angel and Gustavo Palencia, Sofia Menchu, Reuters)

The four sons of María Bonilla and Esteban Funes all embarked on the treacherous journey north, one of them aged 10, preferring the life...

Fighting the autocratic slide in Central America (Charles T. Call, Brookings)

After decades of difficult and uneven progress, democracy in Central America is experiencing its worst crisis since the militarized authoritarianism of the 1970s. Indeed,...

A Central American missile crisis? (Christopher J. Hunter, Defense News)

Late Saturday evening, Oct. 16, China’s successful August test of a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile was publicly reported for the first time by the “Financial...

Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Mexican Foreign Secretary and Central American Foreign Ministers (US Department of State)

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and USAID Administrator Samantha Power met yesterday with Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, Foreign Ministers...

Central America – Central America’s Turbulent Northern Triangle (Amelia Chatham, CFR)

A child sits outside her home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. John Moore/Getty Images Central America’s Turbulent Northern Triangle | Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org)

USA/Central America – Providing Humanitarian Assistance to Support the Vice President’s Leadership in Addressing Migration Challenges in Central America (US Department of State)

President Biden and Vice President Harris have set out an ambitious, multi-pronged approach to address the root causes of irregular migration and strengthen collaborative...

USA/Central America – La gestión migratoria de Biden tropieza con la misma piedra que Trump y Obama: Centroamérica (CIDOB)

Sergio Maydeu Olivares La frontera sur de Estados Unidos representa para el presidente Joe Biden y la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris un gran desafío humanitario, político...

(USA/Central America) 4 things the Biden administration should pay attention to with the border crisis (Brookings)

Elaine Denny, David Dow, Jose Ordoñez, Wayne Pitts, Diego Romero, Juan Tellez, Mateo Villamizar Chaparro, Erik Wibbels, and Pamela Zabala To discourage migration, the Obama and Trump administrations deported hundreds of thousands of...

(USA/Central America) Why Central American Migrants Are Arriving at the U.S. Border (CFR)

Paul J. Angelo Thousands of people are arriving at the U.S. southern border after fleeing the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras....

(USA/Central America/Illegal Migration) Throwing money at Central America will not curb illegal migration (The Hill)

MATTHEW TRAGESSER President Biden last week introduced his administration’s major immigration bill, after issuing an executive order on Feb. 2 to address the root causes of migration from Central...

(Central America/USA) Central America Expects ‘No Pressure’ From Biden Admin Immigration Policy (VoA)

By Jorge Agobian https://www.voanews.com/usa/immigration/central-america-expects-no-pressure-biden-admin-immigration-policy

(USA/Central America) The imperative to address the root causes of migration from Central America (Charles T. Call, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/01/29/the-imperative-to-address-the-root-causes-of-migration-from-central-america/

CENTRAL AMERICA – Over 400,000 need urgent aid in Central America: Rights group (Al Jazeera)

More than 400,000 people in Honduras and Guatemala are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, a refugee rights group said on Wednesday, over a month after...