A professor broke the code of confidentiality among legal interpreters to criticize the arrest of illegal immigrants.

Immigrants arrested in an Iowa raid faced tough criminal charges instead of rapid deportation, signaling a sharp escalation in a Bush administration crackdown.

Girls who join the ranks of Central America’s street gangs straddle the line between victims and victimizers.

Four Belgian tourists held hostage for 40 hours by peasant farmers in the Guatemalan jungle were released unharmed, the Belgian Embassy said Sunday

The suspect, Carlos Gutiérrez, was arrested near the border with El Salvador after investigators traced more than 60 phone calls between him and the men suspected of carrying out the killings.

Dr. Rafael Espada, long the heart surgeon to Guatemala’s political elite, is the country’s newly elected vice president.

Álvaro Colom, a gawky policy wonk and businessman who made fighting poverty his campaign’s centerpiece, won Guatemala’s presidential election on Sunday.

The puzzling election loss of Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala’s first indigenous presidential candidate.

Twenty-six people have been killed in 61 attacks on candidates and activists as national elections approach.

With each passing year, my mother’s undiminished power over me felt, I think for both of us, increasingly humiliating.

A shifting land of opportunity.

Ethiopia has become a hot spot for international adoption, but the sudden popularity comes with risks, officials say.

The Guatemalan Congress dampened hopes for an overhaul of the adoption system by failing to pass a bill recognizing the validity of a treaty on international adoption.

Russia has temporarily stopped accepting new applications from American adoption agencies as part of an overhaul of its accreditation process.

More than 1,000 churches have placed orders for palm fronds from Mexico and Guatemala that are collected in an ecological and sustainable way.

A Costa Rican trek served as a metaphor for the difficulty many executives are having as they transition from niche marketers to big-business men.

In Costa Rica, there are fishermen, and then there are members of the Club Nacional de Pesca.

Last-minute listings on www.digsville.com is one of the many home-exchange Web sites where people offer to swap their houses to spend their winter vacation in the United States.

The options are expanding for travelers to Costa Rica who wish to celebrate and preserve the natural environment.

The White House said Saturday that it would not renegotiate a free trade agreement if Costa Ricans voted against it in a referendum on Sunday.