Border Patrol agents rush through interviews with Central Americans seeking to flee gangs and then send them home to the "threat of murder, rape and other violence."
There was extensive media coverage of the spike in border crossings by Central American minors in June, but little reporting when it suddenly came to an end.
Latin American governments continued their diplomatic protests against Israel's operations in Gaza, but now the protests aren't just from left and center-left leaders.
From indigenous Mapuche in southern Chile to Mayan Muslims in southeastern Mexico, thousands of Latin Americans expressed solidarity with Palestinians under attack from Israel.
The US offered Central American child migrants compassion and deportation at a DC summit, while the presidents of Guatemala and Honduras lobbied for more military aid.
International solidarity was a key factor in a partial victory for Salvadoran apparel workers who were laid off last January after they sought a union contract.
Hopes for leniency in the US drive the increase in child migration from Central America, according to the US media; activists and reporters from the region tell a different story.
US officials designate the arrival of unaccompanied children at the border a security problem–and scramble to shift blame from Washington's own failed "drug war."
In an historic vote, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly ratified a reform to the nation's constitution that recognizes indigenous peoples and the state's obligations to them.
The US is threatening to cut aid if the Salvadoran government insists on buying seeds from small producers instead of big companies linked to US agribusiness.
A former Salvadoran defense minister was given awards by the US in the 1980s, but now a US immigration judge finds that the general's war crimes make him deportable.
A spike in deadly violence came just as El Salvador faced presidential elections, leading to speculation of an intentional provocation by resurgent death squads.
