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El Mirador's Maya marvels await discovery in the Guatemalan jungle
After a daylong slog through the suffocating Guatemalan jungle, we emerged before a soaring pyramid in the ghostly ruins of El Tintal, our first stop in the forested realm of the Serpent King. A slight breeze stirred the air, offering a respite from the heat. We climbed the pyramid and watched the forest swallow the sun. Earthen mounds entombing cities lost to time lay scattered below. And we were heading for El Mirador, the grandest city of them all, only now beginning to reveal its secrets. We had set off before dawn from Flores (about 300 miles north of Guatemala City), driving four hours to Carmelita, a forlorn village on the edge of the rain forest. From there we would go on foot....
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El Mirador's Maya marvels await discovery in the Guatemalan jungle
After a daylong slog through the suffocating Guatemalan jungle, we emerged before a soaring pyramid in the ghostly ruins of El Tintal, our first stop in the forested realm of the Serpent King.
A slight breeze stirred the air, offering a respite from...
Guatemala: Culinary tour blends cuisines, culture
Experience Guatemala's rich cultural heritage from a unique perspective in February when a four-day Antigua culinary tour blends Southern-style United States cuisine with Maya flavors. The Cultiva Tours itinerary includes sightseeing in Antigua, as well...
Guatemala, once a leader in war-crime prosecutions, at a standstill
For a while, Guatemala appeared to be at the global forefront of war-crimes prosecutions.
Over a six-week period last year, a notorious dictator, Efrain Rios Montt, sat in the docket, questioned by prosecutors and confronted by the survivors — mostly...
Nearly 300 women, children deported from immigration detention centers
Nearly 300 Central American women and children have been deported from family detention centers that opened in the wake of a recent influx of people illegally crossing the Southwest border.
As of Wednesday evening, 280 women and children had been...
LAUSD opens doors to young Central American immigrants
At the low-slung bungalow west of downtown, a youngster screams from a vaccination and a nurse records the height and weight of an older boy. Academic counselors stand by, because it is here that many children who recently crossed the southern border...
Exploitation awaits migrant children on Mexico's southern edge
They are called canguritos, little kangaroos, because of the plastic trays of candy, cigarettes and other goods strapped across their bellies.
There is Juan Gonzalez, 10, selling gum for pennies. There are Humberto Vazquez, 11, and Wilmer Hernandez,...
Amid border crisis debate, many new immigrants land in D.C. area
Virginia is more than 1,500 miles from the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, epicenter of the border crisis.
And it is the home state of Rep. Eric Cantor, who was defeated by a tea party novice who attacked the former House majority leader for being open...
A U.S. immigration solution: Fix Central America
For the citizens of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the crisis prompted by the surge of children from Latin America coming across the U.S. border is not simply an immigration story. It is about more than unemployment, poverty, gang violence and the...
Mexico crackdown keeps migrants off trains known as 'La Bestia'
Around midnight, armed with flashlights, Mexican immigration agents halted "La Bestia" — the Beast.
"Come down!" "Come over here!" they shouted at the migrants clinging to the top and sides of the freight train.
Some...
Biden heading to Central America to address child immigration wave
The White House is expanding a public campaign aimed at dispelling rumors in the U.S. and Latin America about its rules regarding deportation of young immigrants — part of an effort to slow the rising number of minors crossing into the U.S. without...
Return of conspiracy nuts: Obama's secret immigration reform 'plan'
In the quest for simple answers to complex problems, one irrational explanation for the humanitarian crisis at our southern border demands an unqualified refutation.
That would be the conspiracy theory being peddled by conservatives that President...
Enrique's Journey | Chapter One: Notes About Sources
Sonia Nazario, the writer, found Enrique in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, in May 2000. She and Don Bartletti, the photographer, spent two weeks with him there and rejoined him at the end of his journey in North Carolina. Then, based on Nazario's extensive...
Border crisis: U.S. targets money launderers to track child smugglers
The increasingly costly and divisive border crisis is pushing federal investigators to crack down on money-laundering schemes they say are being used to smuggle thousands of Central American children into the United States.
Agents from the Department...
More than rumors drive Central American youths toward U.S.
A couple of weeks ago, sisters Karen and Sindy Laucel joined the exodus of youths from Central America, hoping to reconnect with their mother, who had left this farming village a decade ago in search of work in the U.S.
With so many heading north, now...
Addressing the border crisis
Tens of thousands of Central American children, some accompanied by adults but most traveling alone, have surged across the U.S.-Mexican border in recent months. The flood has swamped the border security infrastructure as well as the youth housing...
Deportation data won't dispel rumors drawing migrant minors to U.S.
President Obama and his aides have repeatedly sought to dispel the rumors driving thousands of children and teens from Central America to cross the U.S. border each month with the expectation they will be given a permiso and allowed to stay.
But under...
6.9 quake hits Mexico and Central America
A powerful earthquake jolted a wide section of southern Mexico and Central America early Monday, killing at least three people and damaging dozens of buildings in Guatemala. The 6.9 quake was felt as far north as Mexico City, through central...
Elite Honduran unit works to stop flow of child emigrants to U.S.
Empty energy drinks and rusted baby formula cans litter the moss-covered banks of the Lempa River near this country's northern border, marking the trails where, until recently, migrants — some of them children — made their way into Guatemala on a...
Kids caught at the border deserve due process, including lawyers
When Juan Pablo Guerrero Diaz left El Salvador to come to the U.S., his daughter was still in diapers. Now she is 14, and this year, after fleeing for her life, she was reunited with her parents in Los Angeles.
For the girl, the perilous journey north...
Bell plans to shelter immigration detainees
Nestor Valencia was 4 years old when he boarded a white van filled with piñatas and entered the United States illegally from Mexico.
Now the mayor of Bell, he sees a little of himself in the thousands of children arriving at the U.S. border and...
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