Guatemala politics

Xiomara Castro has been sworn in as Honduras' first female president, taking office amid growing uncertainty about her ability to govern in the face of an ongoing legislative crisis and other challenges. Castro, the 62-year-old left-wing…

Walmart Mexico's operations in Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua are being evaluated for potential joint ventures, strategic partnerships or perhaps a sale as the retailer seeks to focus its efforts on operations in Mexico, Costa Rica…

CHAMPLAIN, NY (AP) – Each time a bus arrives at Greyhound Station in Plattsburgh, New York, a small group of…

Gabriel Boric, who The Associated Press describes him as a "left-wing millennial", was elected president of Chile last month, a development that should have caught everyone's attention. Boric, a 35-year-old former student movement…

The goals Scholz suggested for the climate club – the 1.5 degree cap and climate neutrality by 2050 – are already part of or are implicit in the Paris agreement. More importantly, Scholz said the club could seek to achieve these goals "by…

“It depends on where you sit,” says Dr. John N. Nkengasong, virologist and Africa CDC director. “If you're sitting in Africa, the glass is half empty. If you're sitting in the northern hemisphere, the glass may be half full.There is…

Some 600 migrants hoping to reach the United States left on Saturday in a caravan from the town of San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras. Hundreds of young men, women and children, mostly from Nicaragua, Honduras and Cuba,…

Hundreds of Hondurans and Nicaraguans reached the Guatemalan border on Saturday but were blocked from crossing by Guatemalan security forces, the first US-bound migrant caravan to be formed in Central America this year. Some migrants…

According to the Migration Policy Institute: “Over the decades, several million Central American migrants have sought opportunity, refuge and stability in the United States, driven by a mixture of…

WASHINGTON (AP) - For the 30-year-old Honduran woman, the worst seemed to be over. She was reunited with…

Below is a summary of briefs from US domestic news.Union gets representation in the second Starbucks store in the United StatesA Starbucks coffee shop in Buffalo, New York, has become Starbucks Corp's second unionized location in the…

LAS VEGAS - On a deep black painted side wall at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, 10 large sheets of paper are lined up. Each panel features a…

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NEW YORK (AP) - A son of former President of Panama Ricardo Martinelli pleaded guilty on Tuesday in New…

A son of former Panama president Ricardo Martinelli pleaded guilty on Tuesday in New York to laundering $ 28 million as part of a massive bribery scheme involving a global construction conglomerate based in Brazil.Ricardo Martinelli…

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday announced $ 1.2 billion in commitments from…

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday announced $ 1.2 billion in commitments from…

Here is a summary of the news in the world. Tibetan students lock themselves in Olympic rings to protest Beijing Games On Saturday, two Tibetan students chained themselves to the Olympic rings outside the Swiss headquarters of the…

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A US State Department official on Wednesday expressed concern over journalists, corruption fighters and activists in Guatemala who have recently been the target of government fire.Uzra Zeya, Under Secretary of State for Civil…

Honduran President-elect Xiomara Castro, the first woman to lead the Central American nation, is awaiting the results of close legislative races to see whether her left-wing party would gain control of Congress, a day after her main rival…

A senior Belize politician on Wednesday pledged "unwavering" support for Taiwan during a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen, amid doubts over whether Central American nation Honduras will maintain ties with it. the island after a…

Hello,Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discusses the prospect of new measures to deal with the Omicron COVID-19 variant.Trudeau addressed the issue on Tuesday while chairing a cabinet meeting.In remarks to the media, the prime minister said…

Here is a summary of the news in the world.US says "all options" are on table for Russian troop build-up near UkraineAll options are on the table as to how to respond to the "large and unusual" troop build-up near the Ukrainian…

As the United States spends some $ 310 million in Central American land, officials and experts are divided over whether these taxes are being siphoned off to fuel a "left revolution" or to drive reform. indispensable in corrupt local…

Mexican authorities on Friday discovered more than 400 migrants passing through the country in the back of two semi-trailers, not far from where two caravans of migrants were more visibly, and slowly, en route north.The migrants were…

MEXICO CITY (CNS) - Police regularly patrol outside the parish where Mgr. Carlos Áviles celebrates mass in Managua, Nicaragua. He calls it an act of "intimidation" for his outspokenness on political issues. It also fits a…

Groups of migrants from Haiti and Central America joined forces on Thursday as they left the southern Mexican town of Tapachula for the US border.About 3,000 migrants had arrived in small groups near Mexico's southern border with…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - As night fell, around 250 police and city workers stormed a squalid camp for migrants hoping to seek…

GOP consultant Lee Atwater coined the phrase "perception is reality" and Republicans have run on that…

US President Joe Biden enacted a bill on Wednesday calling for more sanctions and other punitive measures against the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, which extended its grip on power in an election that Washington…

The Biden administration plans to announce new US sanctions and other punitive actions "very soon" in response to the re-election of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in a vote that Washington denounced as a sham, Reuters told…

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was running for a fourth consecutive term in Sunday's elections against a squad of little-known candidates while those who could have challenged him were in prison.Voting was orderly and swift as…

The Biden administration is ready to impose new sanctions and step up diplomatic pressure on the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega following elections scheduled for Sunday, senior U.S. officials said. Stepping up US…

The administration has oscillated between permissive and restrictive responses, leaving it politically isolated and highlighting the consequences of the lack of a new asylum system when it repealed Trump's policies.Some developments could…

On the one hand, digitization and new protest movements, and on the other hand, the traditional problems of corruption and social dislocation, make the young people of Latin America particularly vulnerable. the center of political and…

When I tell people that I cover the vice president Kamala harris, they often answer with the same question: What is she doing?Since taking office with an unusually high profile, she has faded, to some extent, from public view. That's…

Gwenn Craig, Ken Yeager, David Campos (2nd row) Robert Bernardo, Honey Mahogany and Matthew Bajko The politics across five decades of Bay Area Reporter coverage will be…

The politics across five decades of Bay Area Reporter coverage will be discussed by a esteemed panel of local officials, with associate editor and political columnist Matthew S. Bajko, on Thursday, Nov. 4 at 6 p.m. ET. The seventh…

Ama Francis, who has helped the International Refugee Assistance Project find ways to protect climate refugees, applauded the administration's recognition of the need to address global warming.“This is a huge signal from…

Ama Francis, who has helped the International Refugee Assistance Project find ways to protect climate refugees, applauded the administration's recognition of the need to address global warming.“This is a huge signal from…

The number of Haitian migrants to the United States temporarily stranded in northern Colombia has risen to around 20,000, a senior US official said Thursday, echoing reports from a local human rights organization."It forms a human…

Alie Sajous and Macdalla Renois both left Haiti years ago in search of a new life in South America, but struggled there. This summer, the two of them decided to embark on a grueling journey through a dozen countries to seek new life…

OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) - Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and 10 other Republican governors will travel to Texas on Wednesday to push President Joe Biden to respond more forcefully to migrants trying to enter the United States there.But Nebraska…

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An impromptu border camp that rocked US politics was emptied of thousands of Haitian migrants on Friday, most remaining in the US for now and others deported by deportation flights or returned to Mexico. Reuters witnesses said the…

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The United States announced Monday that it had placed Guatemala's attorney general and five Salvadoran Supreme Court justices on a list of "undemocratic and corrupt" officials, a sign of the Biden government's frustration with Central…

Other items discussedA local business that recently renovated a building on East Union Street got a $ 30,000 loan from city council.Little Guatemala LLC, a cafe and chocolate factory at 810 E. Union St. with an indoor soccer field and…

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