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Honduras’ first female leader faces tough times

Leaders

A year and a half into her administration, many say Xiomara Castro has yet to live up to expectations. But as Honduras’ first female president, those expectations are higher than usual. Much of the criticism against Castro comes from machismo and gender discrimination. She’s just one of two female heads of state of a Latin American country.

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Gunmen abduct 150 schoolgirls in Nigeria

Top of The World
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President Biden set to further regulate ‘ghost guns’

Violence
Brayan Guevara in front of Irving Park Elementary School, in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he is a teacher's assistant, June 3, 2020.

This young Afro Latino teacher and voter wants to be a model for his students

Every 30 Seconds
Two men pose together after one was released from ICE detention.

How the US immigration system nearly tore this LGBTQ couple apart

Refugees
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State Dept. list of corrupt Central American government officials is a ‘sham,’ rep. says

US Diplomacy

After asking the US State Department for a list of corrupt government officials in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, some lawmakers are unimpressed with what they were given.

Demonstrators hold signs with Berta Cáceres' face outside a court.

‘Justice is not complete’: Honduras convicts 7 in the murder of Indigenous activist

Justice

Berta Cáceres led opposition to the hydroelectric dam construction on ancestral lands belonging to the Lenca people before she was shot and killed in March 2016. The seven convicted men face up to 30 years in jail.

A large group of male migrants from Central America stand in line for food donations

Why does the migrant ‘caravan’ exist? And how did it come to be?

Commentary

About 7,000 migrants — mostly from Guatemala and Honduras — are heading to the US. The roots of their plight are connected to a deadly history of US involvement in Central America, says assistant professor Jerry Flores.

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This is what the ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on the border means for people fleeing violence

Immigration

A pregnant woman from Honduras and her young daughter broke away from a caravan and crossed the Rio Grande to get to the US. Had she done so just a few weeks later, she would have been arrested and separated from her child under a new DHS policy.

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With smuggling costs skyrocketing, parents balance risk and debt for their children’s future

Conflict

The cost of smuggling has gone up in the last year — sharply. But, for the safety of their children, parents get references, take out loans and make the best smuggling decision they can.

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