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Listen • 6:58 A smuggler bypasses the border crossing in the town of Corinto and leads a pair of migrants on a footpath through a farm that leads from Honduras to Guatemala. Joining the exodus of Hondurans fleeing their benighted homeland, Luis Alberto Enrique and his family search for the unmarked footpath into Guatemala to begin their dangerous, 1,500-mile journey to the Texas border. As they walk through the border town of Corinto on a humid morning last month, his two ...

CAMOTAN, Guatemala: At least 9,000 Honduran migrants have entered Guatemala after a first group pushed past border police late on Friday and others soon followed on the first step of a journey north they hope will take them to the United States, officials said on Saturday.On Sunday, Guatemalan police fired tear gas to try to disperse the caravan of migrants,...

Most Hondurans reside in Honduras, though there may be additionally a major Honduran diaspora, significantly in the United States, Spain, and plenty of smaller communities in other international locations around the globe. There are additionally folks living in Honduras who usually are not Hondurans, because they were not born or raised in Honduras, nor have they yet gained citizenship. Today there are rural and concrete regions the place Protestantism has ceased to predominate. Jews are also c...

This week’s episode features an in-depth interview with Bluestone Resources president and CEO Jack Lundin on the company’s Cerro Blanco project and its accompanying Mita geothermal project in Guatemala. Jack also discusses his previous role at Fruta del Norte and the transition to becoming president of Bluestone Resources in April. All this and more with host Adrian Pocobelli.

Defense of the environment grows from the bottom up – 29/04/2021 – Latinoamérica21 ksuadminApril 29, 2021 24 Since the start of the industrial revolution, average temperatures have gradually increased. Today, however, we are faced with an unprecedented situation. Over the past five decades, the increase has accelerated and has placed humanity on the brink of ecological security. According to the report published in 2018 by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if this trend p...

Villa Soleada Bilingual School Assistant Posted by Share On-site DESCRIPTION There are plenty of places to volunteer outside the U.S, but very few organizations give you the chance to make the impact of a lifetime. This immersing job opportunity provides a monthly stipend, housing with utilities, transportation, and visa renewal trips. This challenging position provides the opportunity to spend a year tutoring english to the most at-risk youth in Honduras, with an organization that has been fea...

Delmer MartíNez And Christopher Sherman FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2021 file photo, a Honduran migrant child is helped off an army truck after being returned to El Florido, Guatemala, one of the border points between Guatemala and Honduras. The reasons Hondurans continue to flee their country have been well documented: pervasive violence, deep-seated corruption, lack of jobs and widespread destruction from two major hurricanes that struck the region last November. (AP Photo/Oliver d...

Mayorkas Blames Trump for ‘Unprecedented’ Border Situation Bloomberg 4 days ago Billy House and Jennifer Epstein (Bloomberg) -- Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told lawmakers Wednesday that the “unprecedented challenges” at the U.S.-Mexico border cannot be resolved overnight, “due in large part to the damage done over the last four years.” In testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee, Mayorkas said the Trump administration left behind an...

Republicans Head to Border to Press Biden on Migrant Surge Bloomberg 3/15/2021 Laura Litvan and Billy House © Photographer: ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP Honduran migrants heading to the border with Guatemala, clash with police in the municipality of El Florido, in the Honduran department of Copan. (Bloomberg) -- Republican members of Congress trooped to the U.S.-Mexico border Monday to put a spotlight on a surge of migrants at the frontier that they say is the result of President Joe...

Apprehensions at the border have increased by 300 percent during the same time period last year, creating a crisis at the border, and it’s not by accident – it’s “by design,” former ICE Acting Director Tom Homan said Wednesday.