Tag: Central America
El Salvador president wants Bitcoin as legal tender
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced in a recorded message played at a Bitcoin conference in Miami Saturday that...
Transgender Salvadoran killed despite long search for safety
SAN MIGUEL, El Salvador — Rejected by her family, Zashy Zuley del Cid Velásquez fled her coastal village in 2014, the first of a...
1 dead, 6 missing at northern Mexico coal mine collapse
MEXICO CITY — The body of one miner was found Saturday at a small coal mine in a northern Mexico border state that flooded...
Nicaragua detains yet another opposition politician
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Police in Nicaragua detained another leading opposition politician and potential presidential candidate Saturday, the latest in a series of moves by...
Mexico to use US vaccine gift mainly on border, at resorts
MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials said Thursday the United States is donating a million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine that will...
US taps groups to pick asylum-seekers to allow into country
SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration has quietly tasked six humanitarian groups with recommending which migrants should be allowed to stay in the U.S....
Mexico to use US-donated vaccines along border
MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials said Friday they will use 1 million U.S. doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine to inoculate people...
Court in El Salvador sentences former first lady to 10 years
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A court in El Salvador sentenced the wife of former President Tony Saca to 10 years in prison for...
US calls on Nicaragua to free opposition figure Chamorro
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The U.S. State Department on Friday called on Nicaragua to free opposition figure Cristiana Chamorro, who is being held incommunicado at...
Siebatcheu scores to lift US over Honduras in Nations League
DENVER — Jordan Siebatcheu scored his first international goal in the 89th minute, and the United States beat Honduras 1-0 on Thursday night to...