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Street gangs from Central America are expanding their organized crime activities in southern Mexico

The Guatemalan palm oil industry, world’s six largest, faces resistance from Indigenous people demanding land rights.

“We can’t go home,” Vinicio said after getting off the bus at the El Florido border crossing, keeping an eye on his two youngest children. The girls, ages 2 and 3, were laughing and playing on a railing outside the Honduran immigration offices. Their father was wracked with stress. “We will hide out until we can leave again,” he said. Crackdowns on migrant caravans in recent years have come amid U.S. pressure on Mexico and Central American countries to stop migrants and asylum-seekers long before they reach the U.S. southern border. Regional militarization in respo...