Fuego and other volcanoes are considered sacred in the Maya culture, but forced Spanish colonisers to move their new capital city.
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Pyroclastic flows are biggest danger in these eruptions.
After colonisation, dispossession and decades of military violence, indigenous women in Guatemala are closing in on justice at last.
Nearly 40 percent of voters in Costa Rica supported an anti-gay evangelical for president. Maybe progressive Costa Rica is more like its troubled neighboring countries than it once seemed.
In 2005, almost 46,000 children were adopted across borders. Ten years later, just 12,000 were. The foreign adoption system is imploding, potentially putting children’s lives in danger.
In an age of increased scrutiny, violent and repressive states are turning to subtler methods of removing dissidents and opponents.
The U.S. government has ended the protective status of 200,000 Salvadoran migrants. If deported, they would go back to one of the world’s deadliest places. How did violence in El Salvador get so bad?
Corruption, not gang warfare, is the root cause of the record violence in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Until public officials stop shielding criminal groups like MS-13, lawlessness will reign.
What happens when outsiders step in with good intentions? As the crisis in Guatemala shows, it’s complicated.
Joint border security measures between the US and Mexico have created a tough situation for those who fled violence back home decades ago.
Ousting an executive leader from office doesn’t always have the intended effect, as these examples from Central and South America show.
Despite Trump’s rhetoric, Mexicans are no longer crossing the border in massive numbers. Data show a new group of migrants is arriving, and for very different reasons.
Young people from Central America continue to cross the U.S. border. Can programs funded by humanitarian assistance targeting root causes of migration help?
Who is responsible when 43 girls burn to death in a state-run children’s home?
Three stories show how today’s deportations are reminiscent of what immigrants experienced during immigration raids under President Obama.
As obesity has become a health concern globally, weight loss information has proliferated – with questionable effects on its prevalence.
Mega development projects can have a positive impact. But there are risks. Between 2004 and 2013, some 3.4 million people were ‘physically and economically displaced’ by World Bank projects alone.
Latin America suddenly seems to be lurching to the right – but was it ever that far left in the first place?
With anti-corruption feeling at an all-time high, a populist comedian has swept to power in Guatemala, while Brazil’s president is facing furious calls for impeachment.
Two Central American democracies are in turmoil – but don’t call it a revolution.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business, University of Birmingham
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Profesor-Investigador, ECOSUR
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Associate Professor Human Rights & Human Diversity, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
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Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Regina
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Assistant Professor of Human Security, American University School of International Service
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Assistant Professor of Human Service Studies, Elon University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced
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Volcanologist, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor in International Relations, UCL
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies and Anthropology , NYU Abu Dhabi, chercheuse associée LESC, Université Paris Nanterre
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Professor, University of California, Merced