The United States and Mexico deported 44,000 Hondurans in 2011, who had left Honduras in search of work to help their families, officials reported this weekend. Returning Migrant Aid Center of Honduras Director, Valdette Willeman, told reporters that 22,832 were deported from the United States by air, while the rest were sent back from Mexico […]
After three years and seven rounds of negotiations, Mexico has signed an FTA with Honduras and four other Central American countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Most assessments of the pact say it will help to raise the economy of each nation involved in the Central America Trade Specialization Act. El Salvador’s Ministry […]
Former Honduran diplomat Rosalinda Bueso married the Mayor of Mexico City on Friday in a small civil ceremony. Bueso, 34, was the Honduran ambassador to Mexico at the time of the June 2009 ousting of President Mel Zelaya, and was quickly fired by the new government that took over. The former ambassador decided to stay […]
The country that will receive the most attention during President Barack Obama’s ongoing visit to Latin America — other than Libya — will be Brazil, but the place where he will probably have the biggest, and most needed, impact will be Central America. Fifteen years after the end of Central America’s civil wars, this region […]
A total of 89 Central American migrants – four children, five women and 80 men – were detained by immigration agents in the past few days in central Mexico, the National Migration Institute, or INM, said. The migrants were found around the railroad tracks in Irolo, a community in Hidalgo state, the INM said in […]