Statehood is a top priority for Puerto Rico's new governor, Ricardo Rossello, who was sworn in Monday

Mexicans abroad sent home nearly $2.4 billion in transfers in November, almost 25 percent higher than a year earlier.

Threatened by gangs in Honduras, he had to flee. His wife and children made it to Guatemala months later. The family is hoping for refuge in Mexico. They're some of the 160,000 people forcibly displaced from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala in 2016: a new refugee crisis.

A taxi driver in northern California called the police when he realized that his young passenger was being forced into prostitution.

Ramón wanted the American dream, but now sells it. He smuggles dozens of migrants across the Rio Grande every week. He is one of the contacts in a network that stretches from Central America to Texas. And he pays a cut to the Mexican cartels.

“Odebrecht and Braskem used a hidden but fully functioning Odebrecht business unit—a ‘Department of Bribery,’ so to speak—that systematically paid hundreds of millions of dollars to corrupt government officials in countries on three continents,” according to one prosecutor.