Money the deciding factor as Honduras severs ties with Taiwan, kowtows to Beijing

Money the deciding factor as Honduras severs ties with Taiwan, kowtows to Beijing

by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2023 Well-to-do American political families and Hollywood celebrities are routinely seduced by the streams of cash flowing out of China, so analysts were not surprised when the second poorest country in Latin America opted to jump on the communist cash bandwagon. Honduras has established diplomatic relations with China and formally […]

Send more voters: New order ‘entices’ Central Americans to head North

Send more voters: New order ‘entices’ Central Americans to head North

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2021 Joe Biden’s onslaught of executive orders continued on Tuesday with a decree that offers aid to Central American nations while vowing to take in many of the area’s most productive young citizens. The order put together by Team Biden states: “We will work closely with civil society, international […]

Baltimore’s murder rate higher than those of Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala

Baltimore’s murder rate higher than those of Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala

by WorldTribune Staff, July 31, 2019 The murder rate in Baltimore is 56 per 100,000 residents. That is more than the murder rates in the Northern Triangle countries of Central America — El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — an analysis said. The Princeton Policy Advisors analysis reported the murder rate in El Salvador is 50 […]

Rand: Human trafficking is multi-billion dollar business for crime bosses, gangs

Rand: Human trafficking is multi-billion dollar business for crime bosses, gangs

by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2019 More than 60 percent of illegal immigrants pay a trafficker to get them into the United States, according to a new Rand Corporation report. In Central American nations, crime lords, gangs, and small-time operators make up to $2.3 billion a year moving illegals across the border, making it one […]

DEA investigation targets president of Honduras

DEA investigation targets president of Honduras

by WorldTribune Staff, June 2, 2019 The current president of Honduras has, since 2013, been one of the main targets of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation into “large-scale drug-trafficking and money laundering activities” related to the “importation of cocaine into the United States,” a court filing shows. The court document, filed on May […]

War: One percent of Honduras, Guatemala entered U.S. since September; ‘Families’ legally released

War: One percent of Honduras, Guatemala entered U.S. since September; ‘Families’ legally released

by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2019 The hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have entered the U.S. since September include more than 1 percent of the entire populations of Honduras and Guatemala, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “The current migration flows, especially of vulnerable families and children, from Central America through Mexico, […]

‘Breaking point’: Trump ‘not playing games’, cuts aid to caravans’ source nations

‘Breaking point’: Trump ‘not playing games’, cuts aid to caravans’ source nations

by WorldTribune Staff, March 31, 2019 President Donald Trump says he could close the southern border in the coming days as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials saying they were on pace to apprehend more than 100,000 immigrants at the border in March. The president tweeted on March 29: “If Mexico doesn’t immediately stop ALL […]

Report: More than 1 million illegals with final deportation orders remain in U.S.

Report: More than 1 million illegals with final deportation orders remain in U.S.

by WorldTribune Staff, March 20, 2019 Over one million illegal immigrants remain in the United States despite being issued their final deportation orders, according to the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI). Data obtained by IRLI via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show there are 644,488 illegals from the top four countries of origin – […]

‘Situation is not sustainable’: Flood of illegals overwhelms U.S. facilities

‘Situation is not sustainable’: Flood of illegals overwhelms U.S. facilities

by WorldTribune Staff, March 6, 2019 An overwhelming increase in the number of illegals rushing the U.S.-Mexico border has brought the U.S. immigration system to “the breaking point,” according to U.S. Border and Customs Protection (CBP). The United States has detained more immigrants traveling in family groups at the southern border in the last five […]

Organizer of new migrant caravan arrested in Honduras on rape charge

Organizer of new migrant caravan arrested in Honduras on rape charge

by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2019 One of the organizers of a new caravan of migrants that seeks to reach the U.S.’s southern border has been arrested by police in Honduras on a rape charge. Honduran authorities confirmed the arrest of 26-year-old Juan Carlos Molina. The authorities said Molina is one of the main organizers […]

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