By Associated Press Mexico's largest crackdown in decades on illegal migration has decreased the flow of Central Americans trying to reach the United States — and has dramatically cut the number of child migrants and families. Convoys of Mexican federal police and immigration service employees in southern Mexico have begun scouring the tracks of the infamous freight train known as 'La Bestia,' or The Beast, hauling migrants from the rail cars and sending them to deportation centers. They have also set up moving roadblocks, checking the documents of passengers on interstate buses. Associated Press journalists who followed the train one night this week as it left the southern state of Chiapas and entered neighboring Oaxaca noticed the drop-off, with just a few dozen mostly adult males perched atop the rumbling cars instead of the hundreds of men, women and children who were there not long ago. The men said they were the only ones able to evade capture. There were only two women and no children on the train.

'They're also going after the coyotes, so it is increasing the cost of the trip and making them move through less visible areas,' he said, referring to the smugglers paid to get migrants through to the

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- Associated Press border.
- Central Americans border.
- Chiapas border.
- La Bestia border.
- Mexican border.
- Mexico border.
- Oaxaca border.
- The Beast border.
- US border.
- United States border.
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US border.


SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (CNN) -- Honduras' interim government on Sunday rejected a proposal to reinstate ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya, ending a round of negotiations aimed at resolving the country's political crisis. Jose Manuel Zelaya was ousted from the Honduran presidency on June 28. The proposal had been presented by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who was mediating the talks between the two Honduran sides at his home over the weekend. "I'm very sorry, but the proposal you presented [is] unacceptable by the government of Honduras that I represent," Carlos Lopez, who was representing interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti at the weekend negotiations, said of the proposal advanced by Arias.

The weekend's talks were the second attempt by

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- Arias to negotiate a resolution.
- CNN to negotiate a resolution.
- Carlos Lopez to negotiate a resolution.
- Costa Rica to negotiate a resolution.
- Costa Rican to negotiate a resolution.
- Honduran to negotiate a resolution.
- Honduras to negotiate a resolution.
- Jose Manuel Zelaya to negotiate a resolution.
- Oscar Arias to negotiate a resolution.
- Roberto Micheletti to negotiate a resolution.
- SAN JOSE to negotiate a resolution.
- Zelaya to negotiate a resolution.
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Arias to negotiate a resolution.


(CNN) -- It was the cruelest of ironies unleashed by Super Typhoon Haiyan. One of the strongest ever recorded, the storm put the Philippine port city of Tacloban underwater, and storm chaser James Reynolds was there filming the natural disaster at what's been regarded as its ground zero. Then, when evening fell, the town caught fire. There was water, water, everywhere -- yet nary enough to put out a fire, Reynolds said. The surge of sea water was followed by a sea of flames. Interactive map of the storm The futility -- and absurdity -- of the moment was captured by one merchant using buckets of water against the inferno in his shop.

"One block of the city was up in flames, a raging fire was burning uncontrollably," Reynolds said in telephone interview from the

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- CNN.
- James Reynolds.
- Philippine.
- Reynolds.
- Super Typhoon Haiyan.
- Tacloban.
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Philippine.