central america

Nicaragua’s Ortega leads in vote tally after jailing rivals

November 8, 2021 The Associated Press

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was ahead by a wide margin Monday in his bid for a fourth consecutive term in preliminary vote tallies for an election widely considered rigged. Ortega had received […]

US pulls visas of 100 Nicaraguan legislators, judges

July 14, 2021 The Associated Press

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The U.S. State Department announced Monday it is revoking the travel visas of 100 legislators, judges and prosecutors who aided the regime of President Daniel Ortega. The department said the visa cancellations […]

Mexico limits non-essential travel on southern border

March 26, 2021 The Associated Press

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — The Mexican banks of the Suchiate river dawned Sunday with a heavy presence of immigration agents in place to enforce Mexico’s new limits on all but essential travel at its shared […]

Eta brings heavy rains, deadly mudslides to Honduras

November 5, 2020 Marlon Gonzalez, Associated Press

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Eta moved into Honduras on Wednesday as a weakened tropical depression but still bringing the heavy rains that have drenched and caused deadly landslides in the country’s east and in northern Nicaragua. […]

US official warns El Salvador’s president that aid at risk

September 4, 2020 Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

MIAMI — A senior U.S. official quietly told El Salvador’s government that anti-poverty assistance from Washington is at risk over President Nayib Bukele’s defiance of his country’s supreme court and congress, The Associated Press has […]