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Celebrating 193 years of Central American independence

Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís stands at Monday's flag hanging ceremony at the Casa Presidencial. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua...

Mexico has key role in confronting surge of Central American migrants

By the time Jhonny Torres reached the tent-camp migrant shelter here on the northern outskirts of Mexico City, he'd been held up five times by armed gangs, including a group of commandos claiming to be members of the Zetas cartel. But he never encountered any Mexican police or soldiers.

PHOTOS: In Honduras, a perilous campaign

Imagine working for the police in Honduras, the country with the highest per-capita murder rate in the world. In a place that doesn't have an outright war raging, a violent death still takes place every 74 minutes. Photographer Sean Sutton spent almost three weeks in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, traveling with a police investigative unit and watching officers tackle violent crime in one of the most dangerous regions of the world. Here are his photographs.

Obama, Central America’s ‘Northern Triangle’ leaders meet on child migrants

President Barack Obama met Friday with three Central American leaders to try to get control of a humanitarian crisis triggered by a tide of child migrants crossing the southern US border.

Experts at D.C. panel deny lax US border controls are to blame for immigration crisis

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the presidents and foreign ministers of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala prepare for Friday’s White House roundtable with President Barack Obama, experts here met to discuss how to stem the influx of Central American children that has overwhelmed U.S. border officials, sparking a humanitarian crisis.

Another Honduran journalist murdered, bringing total since 2003 to 45

Herlyn Espinal, 33, who worked as a correspondent for the daily television program "Hoy Mismo" was found dead in his car in Santa Rita near the northwestern city of San Pedro Sula, authorities said.

Honduran lawmaker arrested in road rage shooting death

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – A Honduran lawmaker has been arrested after allegedly shooting to death a taxi driver during a roadside argument, the latest violent death in a country with the world's highest murder rate.

Collapse traps at least 11 gold miners in Honduras

The workers are stuck at a depth of 80 meters (260 feet) in the southern town of El Corpus, said Oscar Triminio, a spokesman for the fire brigade in the Honduran capital.

Honduran kids flee gangs as migrants inundate US border

REYNOSA, Mexico – Carlos boarded a bus last month using money he earned picking coffee beans and corn, fleeing the gangs of his native Honduras who'd threatened to kill him if he didn't join. The 17-year-old made it as far as a migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico, less than a quarter mile from the U.S. border, unsure of how to finish the trek.

France wins 3-0 over Honduras, the first CONCACAF team to lose at the World Cup

Honduras became the first team to lose in the World Cup from North and Central America, after Costa Rica defeated Uruguay, 3-1, yesterday and Mexico held off Cameroon, 1-0, on Friday.

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