Central America
Costa Rica: port strike ends, issues remain
Under pressure to end a job action that tied up Costa Rica's main port, management and the union made a deal to end the strike—without addressing the issues.
Tag: Central America
Central America
Guatemala: reparations in abuses linked to hydro
Indigenous communities in Guatemala are to receive reparations for massacres aimed at clearing the land for the World Bank-funded Chixoy hydroelectric project.
Central America
Honduras claims blow against Sinaloa Cartel
A raid by a new DEA-trained Honduran anti-narco force took down the country's reigning kingpin, José Inocente Valle, who possessed a cache of gold bars stamped "SINALOA."
Central America
Costa Rica: new strike closes major port
Helicopters were patrolling the skies over Limón after striking dockworkers and police clashed in the latest installment of an eight-year struggle over privatizing the Caribbean port.
Central America
El Salvador: 1980s army hit list unearthed
A US general recommended that the military create "blacklists with photos of all known insurgents and their aliases." Did the Salvadorans follow his advice?
Central America
Central America: US returns migrants to danger
Border Patrol agents rush through interviews with Central Americans seeking to flee gangs and then send them home to the "threat of murder, rape and other violence."
Central America
Central America: child migrant ‘crisis’ vanishes
There was extensive media coverage of the spike in border crossings by Central American minors in June, but little reporting when it suddenly came to an end.
Central America
Guatemala: trial starts in 1980 embassy fire
After 34 years someone is finally going on trial for the grisly deaths of 37 activists and officials at the Spanish embassy. Police held back firefighters as the victims burned.
Central America
Guatemala: police occupy town after violence
The government blames a violent confrontation on indigenous activists resisting construction of a cement factory owned by contributors to the president's election campaign.
Central America
Nicaragua: contra-drug series was CIA ‘nightmare’
Gary Webb's 1996 newspaper series on narco-trafficking by US-backed Nicaraguan "resistance" fighters in the 1980s keeps getting buried—and keeps coming back to life.
Central America
Guatemala: eight die in cement factory dispute
A conflict over construction of a cement factory already killed one in 2008; eight more died this month as plans for a highway added to tensions in an indigenous community.
Central America
Honduras: mine opponents report new threats
The two mine workers who killed three protesters last year are still free, and the government continues to ignore an OAS order to provide protection for mine opponents.