Nicaragua approved a route for its proposed inter-oceanic canal—sparking demands both by the Rama indigenous people and neighboring Costa Rica to be consulted in the project.
As the death count nears 150, the campesino struggle for land in the Lower Aguán Valley of Honduras continues—with the military and the police taking the landowners' side.
Hopes for leniency in the US drive the increase in child migration from Central America, according to the US media; activists and reporters from the region tell a different story.
US officials designate the arrival of unaccompanied children at the border a security problem–and scramble to shift blame from Washington's own failed "drug war."
In an historic vote, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly ratified a reform to the nation's constitution that recognizes indigenous peoples and the state's obligations to them.
The fight against impunity in Guatemala moves to Europe: an ex-police chief is convicted in Switzerland, and an ex-interior minister awaits trial in Spain.
The US is threatening to cut aid if the Salvadoran government insists on buying seeds from small producers instead of big companies linked to US agribusiness.
The Honduran government faces criticism from the OAS human rights agency for its failure to protect campesino activists and LGBT people.
Guatemala's Congress approved a resolution denying that any genocide took place during the country's 1960-1996 civil war that left some 250,000 dead—overwhelmingly Maya peasants.
Indigenous opponents of two hydroelectric projects in Guatemala's highlands are under attack from paramilitaries, as repression increases throughout the society.
Central America's rainforests are being destroyed by drug traffickers who cut roads and airstirps on officially protected lands, according to a paper in the journal Science.
A marketing director for an opposition radio station is the latest victim in the crime wave against Honduran journalists. Police claim it was a "crime of passion."
