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15.01.2021 / 16:45

Migrant caravan on the move in Honduras in uncertain times

SAN PEDRO SULA – Honduran migrants began walking toward the Guatemalan border before dawn Friday, driven by deepening poverty and the hope of a warmer reception if they can reach the United States border.They quickly dispersed along the heavily-trafficked highway to the border town of Agua Caliente, but estimates of their number ranged from 2,000 to more than twice that. Around 4 a.m., young men and entire families carrying sleeping children set out.

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Aid groups aim to bring health care to migrants on way to US

MATAMOROS – Aurora Leticia Cruz has tried to keep up with her blood pressure medication since fleeing Guatemala more than a year ago, but the limbo she finds herself in — stuck in a sprawling camp at the Texas border after traversing Mexico — has made that hard.When Cruz felt woozy on a recent day as her blood pressure skyrocketed, it could have ended in tragedy, leaving her 17-year-old granddaughter and two great-grandchildren under 3 alone in the camp in Matamoros. But instead, a nurse practitioner from Oregon and a Cuban doctor, who like Cruz is awaiting U.S.

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Protesters burn part of Guatemala's Congress building

GUATEMALA CITY – Hundreds of protesters broke into Guatemala's Congress and burned part of the building Saturday amid growing demonstrations against President Alejandro Giammattei and the legislature for approving a budget that cut educational and health spending.The protest came as about 7,000 people were demonstrating in front of the National Palace in Guatemala City against the budget, which protesters say was negotiated and passed by legislators in secret while the Central American country was distracted by the fallout of back-to-back hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic. Video on social media showed flames shooting out a window in the legislative building.

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Hundreds of thousands at Honduras' shelters after hurricanes

SAN PEDRO SULA – Shelters for people whose homes were flooded or damaged by hurricanes Eta and Iota in Honduras are now so crowded that thousands of victims have taken refuge under highway overpasses or bridges.The International Red Cross estimates that about 4.2 million people were affected by the back-to-back Category 4 hurricanes in November in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Several hundred thousand are in shelters or informal camps across the region.But nowhere are the evacuated victims piled up more densely than in the northern Honduras city of San Pedro Sula, where some neighborhoods are still under water.

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Guatemala searches for victims as Eta makes landfall on Cuba

PURULHA, Guatemala (AP) - A strengthened Tropical Storm Eta made landfall on Cuba early Sunday and had its sights set on the southern tip of Florida after leaving dozens dead and over 100 missing in Central America, where it hit last week as a major hurricane.Eta breached Cuba even as searchers in Guatemala were still digging for people believed buried by a massive, rain-fueled landslide.

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Eta zeroes in on Cuba, as Guatemala searches for victims

PURULHA – A strengthened Tropical Storm Eta churned toward Cuba and the southern tip of Florida, after leaving dozens dead and over 100 missing in Central America which it hit earlier in the week as a major hurricane. Cuba braced for Eta even as searchers in Guatemala were still digging for people believed buried by a massive, rain-fueled landslide.

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Eta back at sea as Central America tallies damages, dead

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) - As the remnants of Hurricane Eta moved back over Caribbean waters, governments in Central America worked to tally the displaced and dead, and recover bodies from landslides and flooding that claimed dozens of lives from Guatemala to Panama.It will be days before the true toll of Eta is known.

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Eta back to sea as Central America tallies damages and dead

SAN PEDRO SULA – As the remnants of Hurricane Eta moved back over Caribbean waters, governments in Central America worked to tally the displaced and dead, and recover bodies from landslides and flooding that claimed dozens of lives from Guatemala to Panama.It will be days before the true toll of Eta is known.

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Parents of 545 children separated at border can't be found

SAN DIEGO – Court-appointed lawyers said Tuesday that they have been unable to find parents of 545 children who were separated at the U.S. border with Mexico early in the Trump administration.The children were separated between July 1, 2017, and June 26, 2018, when a federal judge in San Diego ordered that children in government custody be reunited with their parents.Children from that period are difficult to find because the government had inadequate tracking systems.

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Migrant caravan faces roadblocks in Guatemala

RIO DULCE – About 1,000 Honduran migrants headed for the United States became increasingly desperate Friday in the face of a police and army roadblock in northern Guatemala that was preventing them from continuing toward the United States.Seldom since 2018 have the prospects for a migrant caravan been so discouraging. Guatemala’s president sees them as a contagion risk amid the coronavirus pandemic and has vowed to deport them.

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Guatemala vows to detain, return new migrant caravan

MORALES – Guatemala vowed to detain and return members of a new caravan of about 2,000 migrants that set out from neighboring Honduras in hopes of reaching the United States, saying they represent a health threat amid the coronavirus pandemic.While it was reminiscent of 2018 — when a caravan started out just before key U.S. elections — this year it was clear that times had changed, in part because of fears of contagion.Soon after the Honduran migrants entered Guatemala on foot Thursday, overwhelming border guards, Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei vowed to return them to Honduras, citing efforts to contain the pandemic.

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Thousands of Honduras migrants set out for U.S. on foot amid pandemic

Honduran migrants hoping to reach the United States entered Guatemala on foot Thursday morning, testing the newly reopened frontier that had been shut by the coronavirus pandemic.Authorities had planned to register the migrants as they crossed and offer assistance to those willing to turn back, but the group crossed the official border at Corinto without registering, pushing past outnumbered Guatemalan police and soldiers who made little attempt to stop them. ‘The cruelty is staggering:’ U.S.

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2nd Texas death row inmate declared intellectually disabled

HOUSTON – For the second time in as many weeks, Texas’ highest criminal court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence of an inmate after agreeing with findings that he was ineligible to be executed because of an intellectual disability.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals changed the death sentence that Gilmar Guevara had faced to life in prison. Guevara, 50, of El Salvador, was convicted and sentenced to death for the June 2000 fatal shootings of 48-year-old Tae Youk, of South Korea, and 21-year-old Gerardo Yaxon, of Guatemala, during the attempted robbery of a Houston convenience store.“My faith in the criminal justice system is strengthened by the Texas courts’ serious recent consideration of the claim that Mr.

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The Latest: India maintains surge, adds 93,300 new cases

underway to test COVID-19 vaccines in diverse groups— Guatemalan president tests positive for coronavirus— Madrid sets up emergency tents, adds restrictive measures as cases spike— U.S. health officials are dropping a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and telling all those who have been in close contact with infected people to get tested.

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'I want to be with my family': Central American refugees delayed by Trump, then by COVID-19 pandemic

FILE - Migrants continue their journey towards the United States, on January 20, 2020 in Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado, Guatemala. (Alex Pena/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) After years of waiting in countries marred by violence, Central Americans who were finally cleared to reunite with their families in the U.S.

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Man wanted in Sussex County shooting detained at US border, turned over to Delaware authorities

(Photo by Robert Bushell)GEORGETOWN, Del. - Prosecutors in Delaware say a man wanted in connection to a February shooting in Sussex County was recently detained in Arizona while trying to reenter the county. According to police, 34-year-old Alvaro E. Marroquinn is alleged to have shot an acquaintance in the head near Garden Circle in Georgetown on February 4.

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Guatemala to reopen borders next week after 6 months

GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala plans to reopen its borders next week, six months after closing them in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.A government notice published Thursday in the official register said that with some limitations and requirements to follow health guidelines, the country's land, sea and air borders would reopen Sept.

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Coronavirus: Quebec farms facing lost profits and rotting harvests due to migrant worker shortage

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]He said it takes inexperienced Quebecers up to three times as long to do farm work compared to a migrant worker. That meant he had to pay locals to do less work, eating into his profits.D’Aoust slashed production at his farm, Les Bontés de la Vallée, by 60 per cent this year because he and his wife figured they would only have migrant workers later in the harvest season.Two Guatemalan workers eventually made it on D’Aoust and Plante’s farm — but the financial damage to the business was done.

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Oscar Isaac reveals he's 'probably' done acting in big box office movies like Star Wars

He's played Poe Dameron adrift on the desert planetJakku, the villainous Egyptian god Apocalypse, andDuke Leto Atreides on ANOTHER desert planet, Arrakis, in the upcoming epic film Dune.But Star Wars actor Oscar Isaac just might be done playing 'a man in a desert for many years... serving these bigger films,' as he described during a recent virtual sit-down with Deadline, in favor of more of the indie fare where he initially made his mark.'I enjoyed the challenge of those films and working with a very large group of incredible artists and actors, prop makers, set designers, and all that was really fun,' theAmerican-Guatemalan thespian, 41, said of his experiences making the Star Wars movies and X-Men: Apocalypse.

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Florida migrant towns become coronavirus hot spots in US

IMMOKALEE, Fla. – When much of the world was staying at home to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, Elbin Sales Perez continued to rise at 4:30 a.m. to report to his landscaping job in a rural Florida town.Now, a couple of months later, as state-imposed restrictions are lifted and Floridians begin to venture out, the Guatemalan immigrant is ill and isolated at home with his wife and children in Immokalee, a poverty-stricken town in the throes of one of the sharpest COVID-19 upticks in the state.“We had to work.

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Americas new epicentre of coronavirus pandemic - WHO

The World Health Organization considers the Americas the new epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, and now is not the time for countries to ease restrictions, officials have said.

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Local leaders resist Mexico president's push for reopening

MEXICO CITY – Local governments across Mexico pushed back Monday against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's call to reopen the economy in some 300 townships that do not have active cases of coronavirus, with leaders saying they preferred to wait until June before resuming normal activities.

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More Guatemalan deportees from US test positive for virus

GUATEMALA CITY – Three Guatemalans deported from the United States this week tested positive for the novel coronavirus upon arrival in their country, Guatemala's Foreign Ministry said Friday.

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Virus fear turns deportees into pariahs at home in Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY – Migrants returning from the United States were once considered heroes in Guatemala, where the money they send back to their hometowns is a mainstay of the economy.

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US can soon start sending people seeking asylum to Honduras

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has finalized an agreement with Honduras that would allow some people seeking asylum in the United States to be sent to the Central American country instead.

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Quebecers answer call to work on farms, but are they up to the task?

Melina Plante has found that, on her five-hectare fruit and vegetable farm south of Montreal by the U.S. border, one experienced Guatemalan farmhand can produce more than two Quebecers.

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U.S. flight carrying migrants back to Guatemala infected with coronavirus: president

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said on Friday a large number of migrants on a deportation flight to Guatemala from the United States this week were infected with the coronavirus, adding that U.S. authorities had confirmed a dozen cases.

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Guatemala official: 44 deportees tested positive for virus

GUATEMALA CITY – Forty-four Guatemalans deported on one flight from the United States this week have tested positive for COVID-19, a Guatemala government official with knowledge of the situation said Thursday.

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Guatemala: US deportations driving up COVID-19 cases

GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala's health minister said Tuesday that deportees from the United States were driving up the country's COVID-19 caseload, adding that on one flight some 75% of the deportees tested positive for the virus.

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Maritimers celebrate safe return home after risk-filled journey from Guatemala

Two Maritimers and one Albertan have finally returned to Canada, after spending more than a week stranded in Guatemala in the midst of a pandemic.

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Coronavirus: 36 Canadian Mennonite University students, 8 staff trapped in Guatemala

Thirty-six students and eight staff members from Winnipeg’s Canadian Mennonite University are stranded in Guatemala.

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Coronavirus: Thirty-six Canadian Mennonite University students trapped in Guatemala

Thirty-six students and eight staff members from Winnipeg’s Canadian Mennonite University are stranded in Guatemala amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Maritimers stranded in Guatemala riding emotional ‘rollercoaster’ of COVID-19

Two Maritimers and one Albertan stranded in Guatemala are calling on the Trudeau government to end their emotional “roller coaster” and bring them home.

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