Central America

"They've already got their hooks in the critical infrastructure and that's my biggest concern as a military commander," General Laura Richardson tells Newsweek.

The ancient settlement was likely an important center in the region during the Classic period of Maya civilization—around 250-1,000 A.D.—according to experts.

The number of watercraft collisions increased "significantly" over the 25-year period that a team of researchers studied.

The point of Bukele's crackdown is clear: Join a gang, go to prison.

The city—known as Nixtun-Ch'ich'—dates back more than 2,500 years.

The woman had been traveling in Central and South America when she was infected with botfly larvae, which emerged from her skin five weeks later.

Julia comes just 10 days after the deadly Hurricane Ian slammed the Florida coast, taking more than 100 lives.

A distressed 4-week-old manatee was rescued off the coast of Belize by a Florida-based research team.

Now is the time for lawmakers and business leaders to seize the moment and come together so we can literally move the needle to build more resilient, sustainable and humanitarian supply chains in the Western Hemisphere.

The Crocodile Research Coalition's Marisa Tellez told Newsweek it has long been suspected that crocs were not feared by the Maya, whose empire is thought to have peaked between A.D. 250 to A.D.900.

Migrants seeking passage north sometimes wait for over a year in Tapachula before their claims are processed. They're now sewing their mouths shut in protest.

The former president, who was arrested for drug trafficking charges on Tuesday, oversaw a government that has been called a "narco-dictatorship."

If the State Department and Homeland Security act on the request, individuals from Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala could get new protections.

"Our investigations were what led to the government dissolving the anti-corruption body," prosecutor German Arriaza said.

While the United States is understandably uncomfortable with China's deepening influence in its own backyard, perhaps the greatest risk in Beijing's expanding reach is that it will spark a conflagration in Asia that could draw Washington and Beijing into direct confrontation.

Some reportedly felt that by tapping Harris to address the border, Biden was saddling her with an "all-around politically losing assignment."

The joint program announced by the US and Mexico Wednesday will send aid and attempt to spur development in several Central American countries.

"In Tapachula, there's no life for migrants. We don't have work, we don't have money to pay for housing," Atis, a migrant from Haiti, said.

When the same question was asked in 2019 before the pandemic, just eight percent of respondents expressed the same desire of wanting to migrate.

Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, whose husband was sent into exile following a coup, is likely to become Honduras' first female president.

The Biden administration could offer around $450,000 a person in compensation to migrant families. Meanwhile, roughly 5,000 are journeying north through Mexico.

"No one told me anything. They never heard my case and why I went to the United States," Leiva, a Honduran migrant, said.

"The strength and security of the United States depends on the implementation of strategies like this one," Vice President Kamala Harris wrote in her plan.

Typically, migrants who are released from immigration custody are given an official court date, but thousands have instead been told to report to ICE offices.

"We have a long, sordid, torrid history with this region," Reid said. "The history does not begin at the border where people are showing up."

She made the comments in response to Vice President Kamala Harris telling migrants not to cross over the border into the U.S.

"We're talking about saving lives, but that doesn't mean in receiving a donation we will compromise our dignity as a nation," Alvarado said at a news conference with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The violent disturbance took place at a penitentiary in Quetzaltenango—a city in Guatemala's western highlands—and resulted in at least seven prisoners killed.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will urge the U.S. to fund six-month work visas and eventual paths to citizenship through the tree-planting program aimed toward Central American migrants.

Climate change was included in the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence's annual threat assessment, which was publicly released on Tuesday.