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Last spring, Trump froze almost $500 million in funding to three Central American countries to pressure them to stop the flow of migrants. The impact on farmers could end up increasing migration.

Updated 5/14/2019 at 2:45 p.m.Early Monday morning, a bus carrying 55 refugees arrived in Denver. The group had traveled several hours from a shelter in…

Three possible factors account for the surge of migrants at the border: economics, social media and the Trump administration's own tougher immigration policies.

While Border Patrol agents build up fences in San Diego to deter what it views as a national security threat, Central American migrants waiting in Tijuana wonder if the journey was worth the effort.

Bananas are the most popular fruit in America, and demand is growing worldwide, too. But growing bananas requires a lot of pesticides. And a new study shows that some of those chemicals are ending up in caimans living downstream from banana plantations in Costa Rica, where many of the bananas that Americans eat are grown.

To help the an indigenous community in Central America preserve their culture and traditions, journalism students have built a website exploring how the tribe uses medicinal plants to treat everything from a cold and sunburns to cancer.

Drug cartel violence, riots and fires have killed more than 400 inmates in Mexican and Central American prisons recently. The deaths underscore the problems of corruption, overcrowding, prison gangs and crumbling infrastructure that prisons face throughout the region.

Government officials said the fire, which killed 359, was accidentally set when an inmate fell asleep with a lit cigarette.

The fire killed at least 356 people and now human rights groups are calling for Honduras to reform its prison system.

Officials described a hellish scene in which many of the prisoners burned to death or suffocated in their cells.