When "Marta" was 12, she entered the United States illegally, hoping to join her mother, who had left her in Central America years ago to search for work. Three years later she was sitting in immigration detention by herself waiting to be deported back home to her grandmother, who was dying of cancer.
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras -- You'd be forgiven for thinking you had traveled in a time warp back to the 1980s for the U.S.' big World Cup qualifier against Honduras here on Saturday night (10 p.m. ET, closed-circuit TV in English and Spanish).
To hear some Guatemalans tell it, three coordinated attacks that killed four prison officials in five hours Monday hardly raised anyone's pulse.
In the seven weeks since the military-backed bloodless coup in Honduras, several hundred people protesting against the de facto government have been arbitrarily arrested and beaten by government forces, a new Amnesty International report says.
In June we asked you which city you would like to see featured on the My City_My Life show, and you wrote to us with lots of ideas. They ranged from European capitals such as London, to distinct cultural hubs of South America, like Mexico City.
Hunched over a campfire in eastern Panama, Embera tribesman Raul Mezua chanted a song his grandfather taught him when he was a boy.
There are no welcome signs on the approach to Camargo.
Once considered the strongest team in Central America -- before it was overtaken by Costa Rica and Honduras -- El Salvador has reached the final stage of the CONCACAF regional World Cup qualifiers for the first time in 12 years. (El Salvador hosts the U.S. on Saturday in the second game of the Hexagonal.)
Toymakers struggling to survive the global economic downturn are turning to emerging markets and niche products in an effort to make up for lost revenue, industry experts and manufacturers said during the Hong Kong Toys and Game Fair.
Mexico and Paraguay are the top two marijuana-producing countries in the world, a U.N. report says.
When "Marta" was 12, she entered the United States illegally, hoping to join her mother, who had left her in Central America years ago to search for work. Three years later she was sitting in immigration detention by herself waiting to be deported back home to her grandmother, who was dying of cancer.
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras -- You'd be forgiven for thinking you had traveled in a time warp back to the 1980s for the U.S.' big World Cup qualifier against Honduras here on Saturday night (10 p.m. ET, closed-circuit TV in English and Spanish).
To hear some Guatemalans tell it, three coordinated attacks that killed four prison officials in five hours Monday hardly raised anyone's pulse.
In the seven weeks since the military-backed bloodless coup in Honduras, several hundred people protesting against the de facto government have been arbitrarily arrested and beaten by government forces, a new Amnesty International report says.
In June we asked you which city you would like to see featured on the My City_My Life show, and you wrote to us with lots of ideas. They ranged from European capitals such as London, to distinct cultural hubs of South America, like Mexico City.
Hunched over a campfire in eastern Panama, Embera tribesman Raul Mezua chanted a song his grandfather taught him when he was a boy.
There are no welcome signs on the approach to Camargo.
Once considered the strongest team in Central America -- before it was overtaken by Costa Rica and Honduras -- El Salvador has reached the final stage of the CONCACAF regional World Cup qualifiers for the first time in 12 years. (El Salvador hosts the U.S. on Saturday in the second game of the Hexagonal.)
Toymakers struggling to survive the global economic downturn are turning to emerging markets and niche products in an effort to make up for lost revenue, industry experts and manufacturers said during the Hong Kong Toys and Game Fair.
Mexico and Paraguay are the top two marijuana-producing countries in the world, a U.N. report says.
All eyes are on Tropical Storm Gustav as it heads toward the Gulf. If you're planning on traveling during this hurricane season, here's what you need to know.
A tropical storm watch was issued Friday for Bermuda as Hurricane Bertha moved closer to the Atlantic island, causing swells and high turf on its beaches.
Hurricane Bertha, weakened once again to a Category 1 storm, was causing large swells and high surf on Bermuda beaches Thursday.
The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic season barely remained at hurricane strength Wednesday, but forecasters said it is expected to intensify a bit over the next couple of days.
The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic season lost strength throughout Tuesday, dropping to a Category 1 storm with top wind speeds of 80 mph by late in the day, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Twenty-six alleged members of a Hispanic gang believed to be one of the nation's largest and most violent were indicted in North Carolina and charged with offenses including drug activity, racketeering, assault and murder, according to federal court documents.
Tropical Storm Arthur, the first named storm of the 2008 Atlantic season, formed Saturday near the coast of Belize, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
The Atlantic hurricane season starts Sunday, and government forecasters are predicting an above-normal season, with as many as five major hurricanes. The eastern Pacific's first tropical storm of the year formed Thursday off Central America.
Three names -- Dean, Felix and Noel -- were permanently retired from the list of Atlantic hurricane names after storms bearing those monikers in 2007 caused damage in the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and elsewhere, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.
The country's ex-Marxist president says that the economic basket case can become the bread basket of Latin America, precisely because its farms are so backward
By its very nature, jatropha is divisive. The poisonous, deep-rooted shrub is traditionally used as hedging to protect food crops from hungry animals.
More than 5,000 soldiers and police have fanned out across Honduras to fight a wave of violent crime that also has swept across El Salvador and Guatemala.
New infectious diseases have been appearing more often, says a study that suggests "hot spots" where the next new germs are most likely to appear
In this case, the wildest, most outlandish criminal conspiracy theories increasingly appear to be right on target
Angelina Jolie, who was distanced from the espionage game as Matt Damon's wife in last year's The Good Shepherd, plans to jump feet first into the spy ring for an upcoming move.
For all the critters in the rainforests, oceans and jungles of the world, finding a mate isn't as simple as spending hours in the gym developing rock-hard abs or adding a $10,000 stereo system to your 1984 Camaro. Nope.
Students will investigate the contributions of Hispanic Americans to U.S. culture, and what it means to be an Hispanic in America today.
America's fight - to thrive in the Darwinian global economy isn't getting any easier. But in this season of financial market upheaval and intensifying political campaigning, there's danger we could actually give up two of the greatest advantages we hold.
Hurricane Felix has killed 21 people in Nicaragua and another 200 were missing, said the U.S. military's Southern Command, citing Nicaraguan officials.
Hurricane Henriette threatened Mexico's mainland Wednesday, while the weakening remnants of Hurricane Felix dumped heavy rain over Central America
Energy futures ended higher Wednesday after a choppy day in which traders balanced concerns about hurricanes against worries concerning the economy's strength. Prices drew support from expectations that Thursday's petroleum inventory report will show declines in crude oil and gasoline supplies.
Oil and gas futures rose Tuesday on expectations the hurricane season will intensify and that OPEC won't boost production when it meets next week.
Hurricane Felix increased in strength in the early hours of Tuesday as it barreled toward Central America, where it is expected to come ashore along the Nicaragua-Honduras border.
Looking for some offbeat ways to spend a day in New England as the final weeks of summer give way to the golden days of autumn?
Hurricane Felix strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm Sunday and churned its way into the open waters of the Caribbean Sea
The space shuttle Endeavour began its return to Earth Tuesday morning. Commander Scott Kelly and pilot Charles Hobaugh fired Endeavour's engines at 11:25 a.m. ET to begin the descent to Earth.
In the last five years, Noah Walker has played baseball in Southern California, New England and the Middle East. He traveled to Central America, worked on a U.S. political campaign, and still found time to earn his degree. In fact, the only constants in Walker's life have been baseball and changes of scenery.
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Essay: When resorts are tailored to comfort tourists by offering familiar experiences, it can be hard to remember just where you are
Viewpoint: The latest deal on immigration policy addresses some of the problems -- but won't change much
The tortoise famously beat the hare, but now conservationists are turning to racing turtles in a bid to raise awareness and learn more about the plight of one of the planet's oldest species.
When Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird idly sketched perpendicular reptiles wearing ninja masks and bearing nunchaku in 1984, it was primarily for their own amusement. They gave them a name that was also a logo, and having nothing more profitable to do at the time, they inked out their first comic book, a spoofy homage to Frank Miller and Marvel Comics.
THE BACKGROUND More than a billion people lack access to drinkable water. Theirs is teeming with bacteria and viruses or polluted with raw sewage. The result: Nearly 5,000 children die each day fro...
Time is an abstract concept on Ranguana Cay. It's useless anyway on a 2-acre sand spit in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Central America. Here, salt-baked sands bleach under a constant white sun; if not for its movement from one side of the hammock to the other, you might never know the day has passed until it's just you, the moon and the faint lights of Honduras to the south.
Costa Rica is a magnet for international tourists and the Central American state's astonishing geographical and biological diversity -- packed into an area just slightly bigger than Switzerland -- means many are attracted by the great outdoors.
The good news on gratuities is that the United States is an anomaly: No other country hands out tips as often or as large as Americans do.
You've got the grill. You've got the dry-aged steaks. As you get in shape for summer and start serious consideration of upcoming cookouts, give equally serious thought to how you plan to slice your finished masterpiece.
Business schools such as Babson (see cover story) and Stanford have long offered many excellent entrepreneurship programs. Here's a sampling of 10 cutting-edge programs for budding entrepreneurs.
Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott's mandate is simple -- and seemingly impossible: continue producing double-digit growth at a company that already boasts nearly a third of a trillion dollars in yearly sales.
Staffers on Capitol Hill and in the Bush administration said Thursday it is unlikely that the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement will become active Jan. 1, as had been planned.
Guatemalan authorities called off the search Tuesday for bodies in Panabaj, where between 600 and 1,000 people may be buried under a mudslide that obliterated the town five days earlier.
A massive international sweep targeting violent MS-13 gang members in the United States and Central America produced about 660 arrests, law enforcement authorities announced Thursday.
WHICH TOWN IS THE SOCK CAPITAL OF THE WORLD? IT'S a ridiculous question (unless you happen to have an unhealthy affection for hosiery), but it illustrates a problem of historic dimensions for the U...
Inmates from rival gangs clashed in three Guatemalan prisons Monday, leaving at least 31 prisoners dead before police restored order, the country's interior minister said.
With its beaches, golf courses, cuba libres, and rock-solid social-security system, it's no wonder that Costa Rica is luring American executives who want an alternative to Indian outsourcing. After...
President Bush said Congress members heading home for the August recess had a year of "great progress," citing, among other things, energy and Central American trade legislation.
After an all-day, full-court press by the White House, the House early Thursday narrowly approved the controversial Central America Free Trade Agreement, a pact supporters say will help strengthen fledgling democracies.
An unusual-moving Pacific tropical storm threatened Guatemala and El Salvador on Wednesday, and forecasters said it may reach hurricane strength before landfall.
The Bush administration is trying to push the Central American Free Trade Agreement through Congress quickly and quietly.
Look up, Down Under, you're likely to see an increasing number of tourists heading your way soon.
Category 5 hurricanes are monsters. From space, they appear to swallow islands and countries whole. On the ground, they are hell on Earth.
The United Nations World Food Programme has added longitude and latitude to its hunger awareness campaign with the publication of an interactive map plotting the location of the world's hungriest people.
Under the U.S. government's Operation Safe Commerce initiative, scores of high-tech cargo containers from Asia, Europe, and Central America are now passing through the ports of Seattle, Long Beach,...
Excavations at a little-known Mayan ruin in Guatemala indicate it was once one of the largest and most sophisticated cities in the preclassic Mayan world.
For many of us, winter vacations are as much a necessity as a luxury. They are a respite from a strenuous and often stressful time of year: those months that kick off the Tuesday after Labor Day an...
Stuffed from lunch, my wife and I sat for an extra-long while at our restaurant table, holding hands by a tropical garden in a Spanish colonial mansion more than two centuries old. The birdies peeped. The fountain gurgled. The check arrived. Two bottled waters, two beers, a heaping platter of grilled vegetables drizzled with olive oil, a sampler of grilled meats (chicken, steak, pork chop, sausages), bread pudding, coffee, tax, tip... 25 bucks. And this, I reminded myself, was one of the expensive joints.
Good rum has never gotten the consideration it deserves. In the U.S. we drink more rum than we do Scotch--about half a liter a year, per capita. But much of that is in hideous concoctions with frui...
Brent Schlender first came to my attention in 1979, when I was a grizzled old journalist of 31, and he was a fresh-faced intern just out of the University of Kansas, where he had majored in--of all...
THE PURPOSE of this magazine is to encourage the children you are raising to get an education that will open doors to the best life you could imagine for them. But the real key to opening those doo...
San Francisco, already a ''city of refuge'' for undocumented immigrants from Central America and conscientious objectors to the war, will now consider providing official sanctuary to ''oppressed se...
ON VACATIONS, THE RUOSS ((ROO-oss)) family likes to mix fun with schoolwork. The four Ruoss kids don't go to a regular school -- they are ''home taught.'' Maya, 15, Anya-Maria, 12, Lara, 10, and Tr...
Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, 52, doesn't live on bread and sauce alone. The chairman and CEO of the $2.3-billion-a-year pie purveyor is giving up his additional title of president so that h...
Okay, the word above is not pretty. It does not roll trippingly off the tongue. But friends, we need a label for the omnipresent media mafiosi who go around casting left-liberal ideas as ''pragmati...
First of all, we doubt that House Speaker Jim Wright spent more than 25 minutes working on Reflections of a Public Man (Madison Publishing Co., $5.95), an oeuvre of 117 pages expected to soon becom...
For various technical reasons, this Keeping Up column had to be locked up early, so the fellow currently slumped over the keyboard is somewhat disadvantaged when it comes to interpreting the big vo...
Don't ever say this isn't the land of opportunity. The unemployment rate may be hovering around 7%, but somebody out there is trying to hire every last percentile, or why would the New York Times a...
A weary and divided Congress went home for its Labor Day break after resolving such key matters as the far-reaching tax reform package (see The Economy). But Congress has a lot of unfinished busine...
The U.S. farm trade surplus sinks to its lowest level since 1972. A record 200 million tons of unwanted grain gathers dust in silos around the world. Clearly the U.S. farm crisis is not going to di...
It is not much of a secret that the U.S. Senate is in serious trouble. Designed by the country's founders to be a parliamentary body of unique distinction, one in which fundamental questions would ...
We have been meaning to write about the college commencement scene for several Junes now and to register this funny feeling that some will doubtless diagnose as neoconservative paranoia but that ha...
What, we keep wondering, is the New York Times trying to tell us about Central America? Plainly, something of moment. Otherwise, why would a certain 12-person editorial board situated at 229 West 4...
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