The Obama administration regularly sends underage asylum seekers back to face gang violence in Honduras. At least five have been murdered in just one city this year.
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.
The US is trying everything from special deportation flights to pop songs to discourage immigration, but it refuses to change the policies behind the phenomenon.
As the death count nears 150, the campesino struggle for land in the Lower Aguán Valley of Honduras continues—with the military and the police taking the landowners' side.
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."
The Honduran government faces criticism from the OAS human rights agency for its failure to protect campesino activists and LGBT people.
Central America's rainforests are being destroyed by drug traffickers who cut roads and airstirps on officially protected lands, according to a paper in the journal Science.
A marketing director for an opposition radio station is the latest victim in the crime wave against Honduran journalists. Police claim it was a "crime of passion."
A Honduran court has convicted three men in the murder of a well-known journalist, but impunity is still the rule for most killings of reporters and activists.
Honduran dockworkers carried their dispute with port management all the way to Oregon, where US dockworkers honored their picket line.
Indigenous supporters of a center-left mayoral candidate have occupied a town hall since last month to protest what they say were fraudulent election results.
