WASPAM, Nicaragua – Just this month, at least nine Miskito people have been killed, 20 have been wounded and hundreds have fled their ancestral lands in eastern Nicaragua. The Miskito people, ...

The native Miskito are the people most under threat from Hurricane Felix as the category five storm system strikes the Nicaraguan coast today. Although some 12,000 inhabitants have been evacuated, ...

LA CEIBA, Honduras - At a modest clinic down a dirt road, there are rocking chairs on the porch and a hyperbaric chamber in the front room where Dr. Elmer Mejia treats deep-sea lobster divers who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These 40-foot boats are handmade and expertly navigated by the Miskito people. (Photo: Jason Chinn/Yemaya) The indigenous Miskito ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – The Honduran government granted title to more than 1.6 million acres along the country's border with Nicaragua and the Caribbean coast to the Miskito Indian communities that ...

IN terms of distance from the nearest land, the remotest island in the Caribbean is Grand Cayman, whose nearest neighbor—the two smaller islands of its own group excepted—is the Isle of Pines, one ...

SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS — Planes shuttled tourists from island resorts in a desperate airlift Monday as Hurricane Felix bore down on Honduras and Belize. But thousands of Miskito Indians were ...

Driven by poverty to work in the dangerous fishing industry with inadequate equipment, Miskitos too often end up paralyzed or dead On the main avenue of Puerto Lempira, a man sits outside a restaurant ...

The hostility between the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast was sharp during the 1980s, and many Indians joined the contra effort against that regime ...

2002-09-29 04:00:00 PDT Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua-- Clebas Thompson was crawling around in the murky haze 140 feet below the surface of the Caribbean looking for spiny lobster when Liwa Mairin -- the ...

In this 2010 archive photo indigenous Miskitos purchase green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) for food at the port of Puerto Cabezas, along Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas BOGOTA, May ...

One Sunday afternoon in April last year, Delvin Rosalio, an indigenous rights attorney in Nicaragua, says a man attacked him for his advocacy as he left his home in Puerto Cabezas. “Hey, I know you! I ...