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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, center, instruct migrants to walk toward the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge while deporting them to Mexico, Saturday, March 20, 2021, in Hidalgo, Texas. The fate of thousands of migrant families who have recently arrived at the Mexico border is being decided by a mysterious new system under President Joe Biden. U.S. authorities are releasing migrants with “acute vulnerabilities” and allowing them to pursue asylum. But it's not clear why some are considered vulnerable and not others. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Mysterious new system at border keeps migrants guessing

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press

Indigenous anti-dam activist killed in Honduras

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FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks to the reporters as he leaves a meeting at the Organization of American States, in Washington. Newly proposed U.S. legislation introduced Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, targets Orlando Hernandez as allegations of ties to drug trafficking grow. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

US prosecutors say Honduras president took bribes in 2019

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

In this photo released by Mexico's tax agency, SAT, on March 17, 2021, officials show vials of seized, alleged Sputnik V vaccines for COVID-19 in Campeche, Mexico. RDIF, the Russian entity that paid for the vaccine's development, said these vaccines were fake after Mexican authorities seized them from a private plane en route to Honduras on March 17. (Mexican tax agency SAT via AP)

Mexico seizes fake Sputnik vaccine bound for Honduras

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FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks to the reporters as he leaves a meeting at the Organization of American States, in Washington. Newly proposed U.S. legislation introduced Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, targets Orlando Hernandez as allegations of ties to drug trafficking grow. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

US wants life in prison for brother of Honduras president

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez during a ceremony at an air base to receive a shipment of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine via the COVAX program, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Saturday, March 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)

Accountant testifies he saw Honduras president take bribes

By BY CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2020, file photo, Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez arrives for the swearing-in ceremony for Guatemala's new President Alejandro Giammattei at the National Theater in Guatemala City. Orlando Hernandez denied once again Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, accusations from United States prosecutors that he protected drug traffickers in exchange for bribes. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Hondurans await results in primary elections

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2020, file photo, Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez arrives for the swearing-in ceremony for Guatemala's new President Alejandro Giammattei at the National Theater in Guatemala City. Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, the former leader of the Los Cachiros cartel spoke on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, about the drugs, violence and money laundering that centered his life in Honduras, during a trial in New York. Prosecutors in the trial consider Hernandez a &quot;co-conspirator.&quot; (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Drug trafficker says he bribed Honduras president

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks to the reporters as he leaves a meeting at the Organization of American States, in Washington. Newly proposed U.S. legislation introduced Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, targets Orlando Hernandez as allegations of ties to drug trafficking grow. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

US prosecutors allege Honduras president helped move drugs

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks to the reporters as he leaves a meeting at the Organization of American States, in Washington. Newly proposed U.S. legislation introduced Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, targets Orlando Hernandez as allegations of ties to drug trafficking grow. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Honduras leader warns drug cooperation with US endangered

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ - Associated Press

Honduran boys whose family wants to seek asylum in the U.S., play on the sidewalk in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Thousands of people are waiting to claim asylum and more come each day, falsely believing they will be able to enter the U.S. now that former President Donald Trump is out of office. While President Joe Biden has taken some major steps in his first weeks in office to reverse Trump's hardline immigration policies, his administration hasn't lifted some of the most significant barriers to asylum-seekers. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Biden faces pressure as US sets new course on immigration

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and BEN FOX - Associated Press

People who lost their homes in last year's hurricanes Eta and Iota live under tarps they set up under a bridge on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. President Joe Biden has promised investment in Central America to get at the root causes of immigration, but no one expects to see any change soon. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Desperation grows in battered Honduras, fueling migration

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Honduras investigates police in case of murdered student

By BY MARLON GONZÁLEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2020, file photo, Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez arrives for the swearing-in ceremony for Guatemala's new President Alejandro Giammattei at the National Theater in Guatemala City. Orlando Hernandez denied once again Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, accusations from United States prosecutors that he protected drug traffickers in exchange for bribes. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Facing US investigation, Honduras president denies drug ties

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2021, file photo, Nepalese doctor receives receives the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, at Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. India has gifted neighbors, including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, with more than 5 million doses. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

Unwilling to wait, poorer countries seek their own vaccines

By MARIA CHENG and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Roslyn and David Zinner, from left, eat dinner with Stephanie and her son Samir, in Columbia, Md., Jan. 4, 2021. The Zinners have elected to sponsor the asylum-seeking family from Honduras and have been living together for almost two years. The Howard County couple are among a small network of families across the country who are welcoming asylum-seekers like the Honduran family into their homes for long-term stays. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

Maryland couple open their home to asylum-seekers

By STEPHANIE GARCÍA and The Baltimore Sun / Report for America - Associated Press

A Honduran migrant wearing a hat with the stars and stripes, poses for a photo at a road block manned by Guatemalan soldiers and police, on the highway in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Some migrants threw rocks while authorities launched tear gas and pushed the migrants with their riot shields back down the highway. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)

Large migrant caravan dissolves in Guatemala

By OLIVER DE ROS and SANTIAGO BILLY - Associated Press

Honduran migrants gather in front of a police roadblock at a highway in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, Guatemala, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. Guatemalan police and soldiers launched tear gas and wielded batons and shields against a group of Honduran migrants that tried to push through their roadblock early Sunday. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)

Guatemala troops, police break up caravan of weary migrants

By SANDRA SEBASTIAN - Associated Press

Honduran migrants hoping to reach the U.S. cross the border patrolled by Guatemalan soldiers, in El Florido, Guatemala, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. The migrants pushed their way into Guatemala Friday night without registering, a portion of a larger migrant caravan that had left the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula before dawn, Guatemalan authorities said. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)

Guatemala tries blocking caravan of 9,000 Honduran migrants

By SONNY FIGUEROA and CLAUDIO ESCALON - Associated Press

Migrants trying to reach the U.S. border rest at the edge of a highway as they await rides on passing vehicles, near Choloma, Honduras, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. About 200 Honduran migrants resumed walking toward the border with Guatemala early Thursday, a day before a migrant caravan was scheduled to depart the city of San Pedro Sula. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

Migrant caravan on the move in Honduras in uncertain times

By DELMER MARTÍNEZ and CLAUDIO ESCALON - Associated Press