Central America
Will OAS summit broach drug decrim?
The OAS summit in Guatemala opens in the wake of a ground-breaking report dissenting from the US-led “drug war” and broaching decrim and legalization strategies.
Tag: Central America
Central America
Salvador May Day march rejects privatization push
Some 80,000 Salvadorans took to the streets on May Day to oppose privatization initiatives mandated by the US State Department’s Partnership for Growth program.
Central America
Guatemala: emergency over mining protests
Guatemala’s government declared a state of emergency in four municipalities in the eastern highlands following clashes between police and anti-mining protesters.
Central America
Honduras: top prosecutor suspended amid violence
Citing escalated criminal violence, Honduras’ Congress suspended the prosecutor general—but has not acted against the National Police chief, accused of death squad links.
Central America
Honduras: US ‘drug war’ aid linked to death squad
An AP probe refutes US claims that no police aid to Honduras goes to units under the force's overall commander Juan Carlos Bonilla AKA "El Tigre"—an accused death squad leader.
Central America
Honduras: Lenca communities on ‘maximum alert’
Lenca indigenous communities in Honduras have declared a state of “maximum alert,” pledging to resist hydro-electric and mineral development projects slated for their lands.
Central America
Medellín’s ‘top crime boss’ arrested in Panama
Panama announced the arrest of the top leader of the Oficina de Envigado, a Colombian crime syndicate said to be a surviving remnant of Pablo Escobar's notorious Medellín Cartel.
Central America
Nicaragua raises stakes in border conflict
Edén Pastora, Nicaragua's development czar for the strategic San Juan Basin, threatened a retliatory suit at The Hague for Costa Rica's legal challenge to his dredging operations.
Central America
Costa Rica upholds ban on open-pit mining
Costa Rica’s Constitutional Tribunal unanimously rejected a case brought by the country’s Mining and Industry Association challenging the 2010 ban on open-pit mining.
Central America
Panama Canal expansion fuels inter-oceanic race
With Chinese investment, Nicaragua is moving ahead with a new inter-oceanic canal plan—in a race with Panama, which is expanding its own canal for a new era of global trade.
Central America
Honduras: deadly DEA raid —again
A suspected drug trafficker was killed in the first DEA-backed drug raid in Honduras following a five-month suspension in radar intelligence sharing between the countries.
Central America
Canal intrigues behind Nicaragua border disputes
Colombia sends warships into waters newly awarded to Nicaragua by the World Court, as Managua aggressively plugs an inter-oceanic canal plan to foreign investors.