Panama and Colombia both announced this week that they're essentially letting undocumented migrants stuck in their countries move on. Most are headed for the United States.
Colombia has deported more than 5,800 migrants over the past two months, most of them from Haiti and Cuba, according to official figures released last week.
The decomposing bodies of eight undocumented migrants, likely African or Haitian, apparently headed to the U.S. have been found in Nicaragua's vast southern freshwater Lake Nicaragua.
Hundreds of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean are camped out near the Costa Rican border town Peñas Blancas, trying to find a way to continue their journey north to the United States.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – One person died and four others were missing in flooding that hit Haiti, leaving at least 9,600 houses in the deeply impoverished Caribbean country underwater, officials said Monday.
Haiti abandoned plans on Friday to hold a presidential run-off election this weekend after fierce street battles, leaving the country once more in political limbo.
