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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At night, after work, Morris Vidaurre reads the Bible, one word at a time, translating it into the language of his people. Few in the United States would be able to read his work. Vidaurre is a ...