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US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, on Tuesday as War Secretary Pete Hegseth looks on.

‘Fog of war’ might excuse an admiral, but it won’t let Hegseth off the hook

Donald Trump’s version of the “war on terrorism” involves extrajudicial killings of suspected drug couriers in international waters – while pardoning a proven kingpin.

  • Michael Koziol

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a military commemoration last week.

Trump declares Venezuelan airspace closed as stand-off escalates

The US president is threatening to take more aggressive steps over the alleged drug trade, while planning to pardon a former Honduras president jailed on cocaine charges.

In Florida last week, nearly 800 immigrants were arrested in an operation involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

Boy, 4, with cancer among American children deported with mothers, lawyers say

US border tsar Tom Homan’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 800 immigrants in Florida last week.

  • Rachel Nostrant
US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a roundtable with government leaders and private sector representatives about migration on Monday.

Kamala Harris flags bid to keep Central American migrants at home

The US vice president is working with companies like Nestle and Target to create jobs and a more attractive life in crisis-hit countries.

  • Michael D. Shear
US Vice-President Kamala Harrishas been handed a problem multiple US presidents have failed to solve.

‘It will not be easy’: Biden hands Kamala Harris problem he couldn’t fix

Biden’s decision gives a high-profile assignment to his Vice-President, a daughter of immigrants who has forged a reputation as an ally of immigration advocates.

  • Andrea Shalal, Steve Holland and Nandita Bose
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks to reporters in Washington in 2019.

Honduras President helped move drugs, say US prosecutors

Last month, Democratic senators called for sanctions on Juan Orlando Hernandez and a determination “whether he is a specially designated narcotics trafficker”.

  • Claudia Torrens
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Migrants enter Guatemala after breaking a police barricade at the border checkpoint on January 16, 2021 in El Florido, Guatemala.

Guatemala cracks down on migrant caravan bound for United States

Thousands of Hondurans, many of them families with children, are travelling in a migrant caravan headed for the United States as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take power.

  • Sofia Menchu and Gustavo Palencia
Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, President of Honduras, speaks in a pre-recorded message to the United Nations General Assembly, on September 23, 2020.

Honduras president took bribes from drug traffickers, US prosecutors claim

The documents quote the President as saying he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos' by flooding the United States with cocaine”.

  • Claudia Torrens
In a small village in Colombia, a farmer picks Coca leaves.

Washington 'war on drugs' in Latin America needs overhaul: report

It is the result of 18 months of research into the "war on drugs" that has cost billions of American taxpayers' dollars without ending violence and corruption.

  • Patricia Zengerle
A woman works to recover a roof part damaged by hurricane Eta in Wawa, Nicaragua.

Hurricane Eta slams Central America

At least three people have been reported killed in Nicaragua and Honduras with the storm expected to reach across to Cuba and Florida, US, this weekend.

  • Oswaldo Rivas