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Fugitive Salvadoran ex-president given Nicaragua citizenship

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

CORRECTS DAY OF ARRIVAL - In this handout photo released by the U.S. State Department, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo deplanes in Mexico City, Saturday, July 20, 2019. Pompeo met with his Mexican counterpart Marcelo Ebrard on Sunday near the end of a Latin American tour. (U.S. State Department via AP)

US notes advance in Mexican migration enforcement

By AMY GUTHRIE and PETER ORSI - Associated Press

Salvadoran farmer Jose Jacobo Orellana, who five years ago saw his son leave illegally for the United States, walks during the launch of the &quot;Sowing Life&quot; program, in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, Friday, July 19, 2019. El Salvador and Mexico have joined forces in an economic program that is supposed to generate 20 thousand jobs in El Salvador. The program called “Sowing Life”will give farmers $250 as a monthly stipend to help them grow their own crops. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Mexico tree plan in El Salvador aims to stem migration

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Correction: El Salvador-Massacre story

By MARCOS ALEMÁN - Associated Press

Spanish-language reporter Manuel Duran listens to a question during a news conference discussing the 15 months he spent at U.S. immigration detention facilities on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 in Memphis, Tenn. The native of El Salvador was released from immigration custody last week as his deportation case proceeds. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Arrested reporter slams conditions at US detention centers

By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press

FILE- In this Feb. 3, 2019 file photo, newly-elected president of El Salvador Nayib Bukele addresses his supporters, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Bukele on Monday, July 15, 2019, called on Washington not to lump his country in with Honduras and Guatemala, the other two nations that make up Central America’s so-called Northern Triangle. He said his country is trying to reduce irregular migration and fight crime and drug trafficking, and deserves to be treated differently than nearby countries. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Bukele defends Salvador on migration, crime, raps neighbors

By MARCOS ALEMÁN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2017 file photo, women protest outside a courtroom, demanding that the government free women prisoners who are serving 30-year sentences for having an abortion, in San Salvador, El Salvador. A young woman who birthed a baby into a toilet in El Salvador faces a second trial for murder on Monday, July 14, 2019 in a case that has drawn international attention because of the country's highly restrictive abortion laws. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

Salvadoran accused of abortion faces retrial, hefty sentence

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Migrant children eat a meal provided by United in Christ Ministry of Los Fresnos, Texas, a group who brings dinner every Thursday in rotation with other volunteers who organize to provide daily meals, at the Puerta Mexico international bridge, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Mexican police, soldiers and National Guard have recently been raiding hotels, buses and trains to round up migrants, creating scenes that have caused an outcry in the United States, but in Mexico there has been little backlash despite the historical sympathy for the plight of migrants. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico extends $100 million reforesting program to Honduras

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FILE - In this June 18, 2019, file photo, rafts carry passengers and goods across the Suchiate River between Tecun Uman, Guatemala, and Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, as the Tacana volcano stands in the background at sunrise. The governments of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were conspicuously silent during the nearly two weeks that Mexico twisted in the wind under the threat of crippling tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump. In Tecun Uman, there was no sign of authorities even making a show of trying to dissuade people from crossing into Mexico illegally aboard rafts. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Central American officials avoid focus on immigration

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, the reflection of Rose Marie Ascencio-Escobar is visible in the photograph she holds of her family in Houston. Her husband, Jose Escobar arrived Monday, July 1, 2019, in Houston, days after winning a waiver from U.S. immigration authorities allowing him to return to live with his wife and two children in the United States about two years after being deported. (Marie D. De Jesus/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Father of 2, deported to El Salvador, allowed return to US

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Rosa Ramirez sobs as she shows journalists toys that belonged to her nearly 2-year-old granddaughter Valeria in her home in San Martin, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. The drowned bodies of Ramirez's son, 25-year-old Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter were located Monday morning on the banks of the Rio Grande, a day after the pair were swept away by the current when the young family tried to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Her daughter-in-law Tania Vanessa Avalos, 21, survived. (AP Photo/Antonio Valladares)

Migrant: Young family ignored advice against border swim

By Christopher Sherman and Marcos Aleman - Associated Press

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria lie on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, June 24, 2019, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Martinez' wife, Tania told Mexican authorities she watched her husband and child disappear in the strong current. (AP Photo/Julia Le Duc)

A grim border drowning underlines peril facing many migrants

By PETER ORSI and AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 12, 2019 file photo, El Salvador's President-elect Nayib Bukele speaks to the press at Mexico's National Palace after meeting with the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City. Bukele promised on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 to comply with reparations ordered by an international court for relatives of the victims of the El Mozote massacre, one of the bloodiest chapters of El Salvador's 1980-1992 civil war. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

El Salvador tells phone companies to block signals in jails

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A Haitian woman carries her daughter as she waits outside the Mexican Commission for Migrant Assistance office, to get the documents needed that allow them to stay in Mexico, in Tapachula, early Thursday, June 20, 2019. The flow of migrants into southern Mexico has seemed to slow in recent days as more soldiers, marines, federal police, many as part of Mexico's newly formed National Guard, deploy to the border under a tougher new policy adopted at a time of increased pressure from the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Mexico, El Salvador to cooperate on reducing migration

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 1992 file photo, forensic anthropologist Claudia Bernard, from Argentina, brushes dirt from human remains in El Mozote, El Salvador. Some 978 residents of the village of El Mozote, including 477 children, were killed in 1981 by soldiers who entered the area looking for guerrillas but who killed civilians instead, officials say. El Salvador's new President Nayib Bukele, who took office on June 1, 2019, promised to carry out the reparations ordered by an international court for relatives of the victims. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato, File)

El Salvador’s new president vows reparations for massacre

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

El Salvador's newly sworn-in President Nayib Bukele and his wife Gabriela wave during inaugural activities in Plaza Barrios in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, June 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

El Salvador’s president sworn in, ending 2-party dominance

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Migrant children line up for a meal at the door of the Jesus del Buen Pastor del Pobre y el Migrante shelter, in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Thursday, May 30, 2019. Resentment has been growing in parts of central Mexico as the flow of migrants has continued. Towns were receptive and welcoming to the first caravans last year, but more recently have felt overwhelmed. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A look at what Mexico has done to limit the tide of migrants

By MARÍA VERZA and MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

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Strong earthquake off coast of El Salvador

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El Salvador ex-first lady backs out of corruption plea deal

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El Salvador ex-president Funes paid by Nicaragua government

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