Costa Rica teams up with US to Address Migration
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Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic, transit countries for thousands of migrants seeking to reach the United States irregularly, established a strategic alliance...
Riots Break Out in Costa Rica’s Infamous San Jose Barrio La Carpio
Just over two weeks ago an estimated 800 families entered into La Carpio to occupy a vacant property adjacent to the San Jose neighborhood. The vacant...
Mexican migrant tragedy: A Guatemalan mother’s grief
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Giovani Raymundo, 18, kissed his mother goodbye last week, setting off before sunrise from their remote Guatemalan village on a dangerous journey in search...
Mexico urges US migration rethink after horror crash kills 55
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Mexico on Friday urged Washington to rethink its migration policy after a horror road accident killed 55 undocumented migrants in a truck on a...
UN seeks $1.79 bn to help Venezuelan migrants
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The UN on Thursday made a call for $1.79 billion to help an ever-larger wave of Venezuelan migrants and their host countries in Latin...
Poverty and violence push 378,000 Central Americans north each year
A joint report published by the World Food Programme (WFP), Migration Policy Institute (MPI), and Civic Data Design Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of...
For Honduran youth, US is the only escape from poverty
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Wilmer Rodriguez's mother, Lesly Madariaga, spent a sleepless night looking for him in the streets of Nueva Suyapa, a poor neighborhood in the hills...
VP Harris visits US-Mexico border amid migrant policy scrutiny
Vice President Kamala Harris met Friday with federal agents and unaccompanied migrant children at the southern US border as part of a trip to...
Costa Rica Immigration Requirements – The Police Record Affidavit
One of the main documents that people have to provide to the Costa Rica immigration authorities when requesting residency is the so called “police...
Prevented from entering Havana, Cuban journalist asks for refuge in Costa Rica
A week after Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís saw off one of the last flights of the Cuban migrant airlift, hundreds more Cuban migrants mass again at the southern border with Panama.
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