Lindsay Fendt

Cubans get amnesty at the US bor­der, but reach­ing it in­volves a risky jour­ney along the Cen­tral Amer­i­can mi­grant trail.

Ram­pant pub­lic sex­u­al ha­rass­ment has leg­is­la­tors in Cos­ta Rica and across Latin Amer­i­ca search­ing for so­lu­tions.

Con­ser­va­tion­ists ac­cuse Cos­ta Ri­can au­thor­i­ties of al­low­ing the shark-fin trade to con­tin­ue de­spite glob­al treaty.

Sup­port­ers say it could lift coun­try out of pover­ty, but op­po­nents point to po­ten­tial for en­vi­ron­ment and rights abus­es.

Poach­ers are be­com­ing in­creas­ing­ly hos­tile to­wards ecol­o­gists in the cen­tral Amer­i­can na­tion.