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Correction: Honduras-Death Squads story

In a story May 13 about suspects disappearing or dying after being in the custody of the Honduran National Police, The Associated Press misquoted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield as suggesting that the Honduran armed forces have engaged in vigilantism. In fact, Brownfield was spe Full story

On immigration, we need to 'bring people out of the shadows'

   Author Sonia Nazario talks to The Cycle hosts about what an ideal immigration reform package would look like and her experience writing about immigrants, particularly children, in the United States.

Obama focuses on improving US-Mexico relations

   Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., discusses President Obama’s recent comments at a speech in Mexico City and in his weekly radio address about improving US relations with Mexico.

CentAm businessmen propose building gas pipeline

A proposal by Central American businessmen to build a natural gas pipeline from Mexico to Panama will be presented during a weekend meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Central American presidents. Full story

Telefonica sells Central American assets for $500 million

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Telefonica <TEF.MC> has signed a deal to sell 40 percent of its assets in four Central American countries to Corporacion Multi Inversiones (CMI) for $500 million, as part of its drive to cut debt. Full story

Mexico detains 108 in immigration sweep; most from Central America

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities said on Saturday they detained 108 undocumented immigrants along highways, at bus stations and on a cargo train route that thousands of Central Americans use every year to cross Mexico and enter the United States illegally. Full story

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  South Texas sees rise in illegal border crossings

Despite a dramatic drop in illegal immigration nationwide, south Texas, along the Rio Grande, is now seeing a rise in immigrants crossing the Mexican border, as many flee the poverty and violence in Central America. NBC’s Mark Potter reports.

  Trouble in Paradise, Part 1

Belize, a tiny country in Central America, is the kind of tropical paradise everyone dreams of. But when Greg Faull moved there from Florida last year he never suspected that he was about to have a confrontation with an eccentric neighbor.

  Sweet sorrow: Unsolved epidemic linked to sugar harvest

NBC's Kerry Sanders reports from Nicaragua on an inexplicable epidemic in Central America where more than 16,000 people — mostly sugar cane workers — have died from incurable chronic kidney disease.

  This python is feeling (really) relaxed

National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski introduces TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb to wild creatures from Central America to Southeast Asia including a warthog, an African gray parrot, and a Burmese python who answers his own “call of the wild” in Studio 1A.

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Obama meets with Central American leaders
Obama meets with Central American leaders

U.S. President Barack Obama poses for a photo with leaders of Central American countries in San Jose, Costa Rica May 3, 2013. Seen (L-R) are SICA Secretary General Juan Aleman, Panama President Ricardo Martinelli, Honduras President Porfirio Lobo, El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, Costa Rica Pr

U.S. President Obama has dinner with leaders of Central American countries in San Jose
U.S. President Obama has dinner with leaders of Central American countries in San Jose

U.S. President Barack Obama has dinner with leaders of Central American countries in San Jose, Costa Rica May 3, 2013. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (COSTA RICA - Tags: POLITICS)

The Executive Director of the International Coffee Organization, Silva, looks at a plant affected by a tree-killing fungus known as roya in Marcala
The Executive Director of the International Coffee Organization, Silva, looks at a plant affected by a tree-killing fungus known as roya in Marcala

The Executive Director of the International Coffee Organization , Roberio Oliveira Silva, looks at a plant affected by a tree-killing fungus known as roya in Marcala April 23, 2013. Oliveira Silva told Reuters during a visit to Honduras, the largest coffee exporter in Central America, that the roya