The Pigeon Express
Guatemalan authorities have reported that 12 people were killed in the village of Chiquix, 155km east of the capital, where a long-running land dispute has sparked conflicts between the residents of two municipalities. The victims include women and three children, authorities said on Saturday. One police officer was also killed during the armed confrontation, while […]
A large group of thousands of migrants from across Latin America, which has slowly been winding its way through Mexico, has clashed with police. Sunday’s clash happened as the group approached the capital, Mexico City. Their plan was to reach the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Catholic pilgrimage site in the capital. But […]
At least 49 people have been killed and dozens more injured after the truck they were being transported in crashed in southern Mexico, authorities say. Some 100 people, said to be migrants from Central America, were crammed into the trailer when the truck rolled and hit a bridge in the state of Chiapas. At least […]
El Salvador passed legislation to make Bitcoin – the largest of all the cryptocurrencies – as legal tender. It accepted the proposal of President Nayib Bukele to recognise Bitcoin as a medium of exchange to facilitate online transactions. The Central American nation became the first ever country around the globe to take this step. Why […]
At least ten buried bodies of seven women and three children were discovered on the property of a former police officer in El Salvador. Hugo Osorio Chavez Osorio, 51, is being investigated on suspicion of sexual crimes and 13 murders, the country’s attorney general’s office said. He was originally arrested last Saturday for the murder […]
Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala have agreed to deploy troops at their borders to slow down the movement of migrants trying to get into the United States, a Biden administration official said on Monday. “We’ve secured agreements for them to put more troops on their own border,” Tyler Moran, a special assistant to President Joe Biden […]
Three central American frog species have gone extinct and many others may soon follow. Their population has been ravaged by a fungus that is spreading faster because of climate change, conservationists say. While updating its ‘red list’ of threatened species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned that the world is seeing a […]
At least 40 people have been killed in Central America after Hurricane Iota triggered landslides and flooding, sweeping through the already waterlogged region. As rescue work continues authorities expect the number of deaths to rise. Most of the deaths have been in Nicaragua and Honduras. Iota made landfall on Nicaragua’s coast late Monday as a […]