A family was massacred during regional elections on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, but National Police said they were victims of score-settling between criminal gangs.
Indigenous supporters of a center-left mayoral candidate have occupied a town hall since last month to protest what they say were fraudulent election results.
A spike in deadly violence came just as El Salvador faced presidential elections, leading to speculation of an intentional provocation by resurgent death squads.
After a five-year campaign, supporters of a campesino activist won him a chance for retrial—but he was convicted again in the new trial.
Costa Rica is preparing a new complaint against Nicaragua at The Hague, accusing Managua of offering Costa Rican maritime territory to international oil companies.
Under Nicaragua's newly amended Constitution, three-time president Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front will be free to seek further terms.
Tahoe's controversial silver mine in southeast Guatemala is now open for business, but local indigenous communities still want the company to get out.
US retailers have been caught selling apparel from a plant whose union-busting owner cheated the workers of their pension and healthcare benefits.
Unidentified assailants beat and shot Guatemalan indigenous leader and former guerrilla Juan Tuyuc; activists are demanding a thorough investigation.
World Bank auditors say the bank violated ethical standards with a loan it gave a landowner in the conflictive Aguán Valley region of Honduras.
Guatemala has emerged as a major opium producer in recent years, and President Otto Pérez Molina is now considering legalized and regulated cultivation.
Unprecedented cocaine raids across Costa Rica point to the Central American country emerging as a key hub in the hemispheric narco-trade.
