Nina Lakhani

Af­ter serv­ing four years for foeti­cide, Maria Tere­sa Rivera was freed. But a new ap­peal wants to send her back to jail.

Mi­grants from El Sal­vador face rob­bery, rape, and de­por­ta­tion as they try to cross Mex­i­co to the Unit­ed States.

De­spite ju­bi­la­tion at dozens of po­lit­i­cal res­ig­na­tions and ar­rests in re­cent months, vot­ers de­mand fun­da­men­tal re­forms.

Fed up young peo­ple us­ing so­cial me­dia have gal­vanised Guatemalans an­gry at cor­rup­tion – and helped oust a pres­i­dent.

In a coun­try with soar­ing mur­der rates, the LGBT com­mu­ni­ty is of­ten a tar­get.

Rul­ing to de­port Gen­er­al Vides could sig­nal warn­ing for hu­man rights vi­o­la­tors en­joy­ing sanc­tu­ary on Amer­i­can soil.

New ‘Safe El Sal­vador’ plan of­fers a soft ap­proach to tack­ling gang vi­o­lence in the most dead­ly coun­try in the world.

Latin Amer­i­can na­tion of six mil­lion has one of the high­est rates of sex­u­al vi­o­lence against girls in the world.

A hunger strike that last­ed over two weeks prompt­ed Mex­i­co to pur­sue the mur­der­ers of two hu­man rights ac­tivists.

Com­men­ta­tors say the main chal­lenge for the new gov­ern­ment is to re­duce deep po­lit­i­cal di­vi­sions with­in the pop­u­la­tion.