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| Wash Post Central America and Caribbean
The Washington Post provides the latest information and analysis of breaking Central America and Caribbean news stories.
When President Obama arrives in the tiny nation of El Salvador this week to talk about security and poverty, he will stand at a crossroads of arms, drug and human trafficking, where homicide rates are soaring and weak governments are struggling without much help against powerful transnational mafias
Haiti struggled once more to pull off an orderly election Sunday, as confusion broke out at polls and turnout appeared low, but when the day ended quietly without major violence, election officials and foreign observers declared it a success.
Hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean was shot in the hand Saturday night on the eve of Haiti's tense presidential runoff vote, but he has since been treated and released from a local hospital, according to his publicist.
Voters in this shattered country will go to the polls Sunday to choose Haiti's next president. The first round of balloting in November was a disaster that led to rioting. Things are supposed to be smoother this time around.
Former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned home to Haiti Friday after nearly seven years in exile in South Africa. Opponents wondered how he might affect Sunday's presidential election.
Exiled leader set to return less than 48 hours before a runoff vote in a presidential election marred by fraud and chaos.
CASTRIES, St. Lucia - A robbery and assault on three gay American tourists at their vacation cottage has St. Lucia officials scrambling to assure visitors that the southern Caribbean island is safe and welcoming for homosexuals.
IN COBAN, GUATEMALA The once-fearsome Guatemalan army has returned to the jungles where it battled Marxist guerrillas a generation ago, this time to hunt shadowy Mexican drug traffickers fighting for control of strategic smuggling routes to the United States.
Cuban prosecutors announced Friday that they will seek a 20-year jail term for U.S. government contractor Alan Gross, who was arrested more than a year ago for distributing satellite communication equipment to the island's Jewish community.
Many Haitians sighed with relief Thursday after election officials announced that former first lady Mirlande Manigat will face Michel Martelly, a carnival singer known as "Sweet Micky," in a runoff presidential election next month.
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