Eswin Mejia was charged with homicide by DUI after Sarah Root's death, but fled before trial. President Donald Trump has cited the case repeatedly.

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow.

Then there was his crypto fixation. In 2021 El Salvador became the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, alongside the dollar. The president vowed to shun conventional capital markets, and raise billions via tokenised blockchain bonds.

State medical investigators will examine the bodies of three Revere women who died in mysterious circumstances in Belize once they are returned to the United States.

Nicaragua announced on Thursday it would withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a UN report that urged the international community to address human rights violations by President Daniel Ortega's government.

I soaked in luxury at Thatch Caye, an all-inclusive island resort in Belize, where a premier overwater bungalow costs about $1,010 a night.

People look out from a hotel where migrants from Asia and the Middle East are housed after being deported to Panama as part of an agreement between the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and the Central American nation,

In his 2016 campaign, President Trump seized on the death of Sarah Root, who police said was killed by an undocumented immigrant suspected of driving drunk.

Costa Rica and Panama are coordinating to expedite southbound migrant transit through their countries along the same route that carried hundreds of thousands north in recent years.

Panama's President Jose Mulino said on Thursday the Central American nation's economy was reeling from the closure of Canadian miner First Quantum's Cobre Panama mine, once the world's biggest copper mine.

As a teen, Jefri Lindo trekked across L.A. on buses looking for work. He was brewing a future as the co-owner of Ülëw Coffee and Juice.

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. and its workers and suppliers in Panama are stepping up efforts to gain support for the reopening of a $10 billion copper mine more than a year after it was shut.