Carrie Kahn

Migrants from the Central American caravan are arriving in the Mexican city of Tijuana. Authorities across the border in San Diego, Calif., are dealing with thousands of previous asylum-seekers.

As a caravan of migrants from Central America makes its way toward the U.S., Tijuana residents and officials are already trying to deal with thousands of others who are waiting to ask for asylum in the U.S.

The party of the incoming president introduced a bill to lift the country's prohibition on weed, and it controls both houses of Congress.

It's been a week since repair crews cut the water to Mexico City and problems with the repair to the system that provides about 30 percent of the city's water supply isn't going as well as planned.

Mexico's biggest drug trafficker is being charged with worldwide drug trafficking, money laundering and murder. The trial has been decades in the making and is being billed as one of the biggest in the U.S.

It's hard to find a bucket, pail or plastic receptacle in the city of millions that isn't full of water. Residents stored water in whatever they could find in preparation for the pipes going dry.

Those migrants who didn't join the caravan say they hope to catch up or start a new one. They say poverty and violence at home leave them no other option.

President Trump says he's going to cut aid to Central American countries that won't stop their residents from heading to the U.S. Many Hondurans welcome it, though they could lose crucial remittances.

Hondurans continue to flee their homeland for a better life up north. Their reasons for leaving include high crime, vicious gangs and few opportunities.

President Trump says the caravan of migrants working its way north through Mexico is the work of the Democrats, while Honduras's president has accused Venezuela of funding the mass exodus.

The new trade deal signed by the U.S., Mexico and Canada says much of a car should be built by workers making at least $16 an hour. Some experts are skeptical that will happen anytime soon in Mexico.

The biggest bloc of Taiwan's few remaining world allies is in Central America and the Caribbean. But even that solidarity is splintering.

Several cities have resorted to storing dead bodies in refrigerated trailers, including Guadalajara. That sparked a national scandal, after some residents complained about the stench.

Fifty years ago, government forces opened fire on a student-led protest in Mexico City. Some say the repression opened a path for democratic change; others say a legacy of impunity has endured.

"We are depleting volumes of water that took hundreds, thousands of years to store. Sooner or later it will run out," says Mexico City's outgoing water system director.

Mexico City is draining even more water from the ancient lake bed on which the city sits, causing it to sink. Climate change, political inaction and poor infrastructure are intensifying the problem.

In the last week Nicaragua and Guatemala moved to close separate United Nations groups working on human rights and anti-corruption efforts in what many say is a blow to democracy in Central America.

International press organizations are criticizing the media attacks in Nicaragua, which include torching a radio station, stealing equipment and cutting off TV networks.

Hundreds have been arrested or disappeared since the Ortega regime launched a crackdown on protesters. President Ortega has relied heavily on pro-government paramilitaries to make the arrests.

For over four months, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has responded forcefully to nationwide protests. As many as 23,000 are seeking refuge next door.