Salvadoran troops operate outside the mandate of the U.N. Gang Suppression Force in Haiti. Costa Rica pulls out from talks to join the TPP-11 free-trade agreement. El Niño deepens poverty across Central America’s Dry Corridor.

Over 2,000 Salvadoran troops land in Haiti to find four missing aviation technicians. Two migrant caravans left Honduras within one month. The Guatemalan government sacks the police chief amid a major murder investigation.

Guatemalan police are accused of planting a weapon in a high-profile murder probe. The U.S. conducts military training in Panama, Honduras, and Colombia. Costa Rica opens a supermax prison modeled on El Salvador.

Bukele announces plans to release thousands of alleged gang “collaborators.” The October 9 earthquake in Panama affects thousands. Rising tides displace Central American coastal communities.

Senate Democrats press Trump’s pick for ambassador to El Salvador on human rights. A Guatemalan journalist is murdered in the highlands close to Mexico. Costa Rica closes a probe into who ordered the murder of a Nicaraguan exile.

Between El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, over two-fifths of the population go hungry. A Guatemalan man dies in a car accident while fleeing from ICE in Michigan. The region seeks to respond to electoral repression in Nicaragua.

Guatemala receives its first shipment of U.S. weapons, a Spanish reality TV show clashes with Honduran Garifunas, and El Salvador holds a deportee without criminal charges.

In Florida, Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano is detained by ICE despite his asylum case. In Costa Rica, an exiled Nicaraguan campesino survives an assassination attempt. In Panama, police admit to infiltrating unionists and social movements.