El Salvador packs volcanoes, surfing, and colorful small towns into a compact footprint.

This lesser-known stretch of Belize's Caribbean coast offers white-sand beaches, walkable villages, and retirement-friendly ...

Central America does not suffer from a lack of regional challenges. It suffers from a shortage of regional decisions.

“Rooting out” corruption in Central America is the key to restoring hope and opportunity in the region and persuading its citizens to stay home, says the Biden administration. Yet to truly change ...

Ask Americans why Central American immigrants are arriving at the southern U.S. border in ever-larger numbers, and some will say it’s lax border enforcement, disregard for the law and the temptations ...

A new agreement between Russia and Nicaragua to provide Russian troops for and in Nicaragua represents what Thomas Jefferson called a “fire bell in the night.” But while he was referring to the ...

Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance that has created mountains, volcanoes, continents, ridges and ocean trenches. Tectonic plates play a key role in this process.

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2024 issue. 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 ...

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The United States is running more than 30,000 radio ads a month in Central America to deter migration amid a renewed focus on the region and the root causes pushing people to journey north, a State ...

It is best to get permission from local gang leaders before entering a small neighborhood that locals call La Playita in Chamelecón, Honduras. Violence here is as pervasive as the poverty in this area ...

Israeli Foreign Ministry says that four-day visit to Panama and Costa Rica will deepen ties with partners in the region.