Within 20 years the United Provinces of Central America, known for a time as the Federal Republic of Central America, collapsed. The region has never recovered. Advertisement.

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

The heart of Jonathan Blitzer’s new book about Central America is a heart doctor. Born in the 1950s in El Salvador, Juan Romagoza was drawn to medicine by something like a religious calling.

For 16 years after the fall of the Spanish Captaincy-General, they had lived turbulently together as the United Provinces of Central America. They had broken apart, but the memory still lived.

Data from ICE shows commercial airlines were used for deportation flights to Central America in at least 1,386 cases between January 1, 2019 and January 16, 2020.

Central America is suffering the worst political crisis the region has faced since the end of the civil wars in the 1990s. Beyond the devastating effects of the pandemic, we can add crime ...

Long before President Trump took office, the United States had a checkered history in Central America – and some say it may have created the migrant crisis.

The major gangs threatening Central Americans — the 18th Street gang, or M-18, and its rival Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 — started in the United States. They expanded to Central America after ...

The United States sanctioned two MS-13 gang members in Central America in an effort to crack down on gangs. Individuals are Honduran, Nicaraguan nationals.

Finally, there’s Biden’s “Plan to Build Security and Prosperity in Partnership with the People of Central America.” While claiming to address the “root causes” of migration, including ...

A wide-ranging exhibit of Mr. Wallace’s photos from Central America, “In the Crosshairs: Dispatches from Central America, 1983-90,” is on display through March 15 at the University of ...