Central America
Honduras: new party ‘breaks chains’ of old system
Two opposition parties charge fraud in the Nov. 24 election in Honduras. Did the vote restore democracy–or just aggravate the “social confrontation”?
Tag: Central America
Central America
Honduras: opposition charges fraud in election
While the Nov. 24 election results remain in dispute, what is certain that the new center-left LIBRE coalition has ended Honduras' aging two-party system.
Central America
Honduras: pre-election repression continues
A new report finds that the center-left LIBRE party has suffered more attacks and killings than all other political parties combined—and the violence continues.
Central America
Panama ups ante in Nicaragua canal race
The current expansion of the Panama Canal will accommodate 90% of the world's 370-vessel liquified natural gas fleet—a new bid to undermine Nicaragua's canal plans.
Central America
Nicaragua: CIA-contra drug charges resurface
The grisly 1985 murder of a US drug agent is back in the news—and so are allegations of drug running by the CIA and Nicaragua’s US-backed contras.
Central America
Guatemala: court seeks amnesty for Ríos Montt
The same court that threw out ex-dictator Ríos Montt's genocide conviction last spring is now looking for a way to get him an amnesty.
Central America
Honduras indigenous leader’s detention challenged
Legal advocates are appealing to international bodies to block the detention of an indigenous leader whose crime seems to be supporting anti-dam protests.
Central America
Honduras: indigenous, labor leaders under attack
In just one week, the leader of the main Honduran indigenous organization is imprisoned and the leader of a dockworkers’ union is attacked at his home.
Central America
Guatemala: mineral interests behind massacre?
Indigenous authorities in the Guatemalan pueblo of Nacahuil reject government claims that a massacre there was the work of drug gangs, pointing to violence against mining opponents.
Central America
Honduras grants title to Miskito territory
After 40 years of conflicts, protests and negotiations, the government of Honduras formally granted indigenous communities title to nearly all of the country’s remote Miskito Coast.
Central America
Honduras: three campesinos killed at mine protest
Witnesses say two mine employees rode up to an anti-mining blockade, shot two protesters and then shot the owner of the house where the protesters had sought shelter.
Central America
Honduras: Congress resurrects military police force
The Honduran government is planning to form a military police unit, despite the rights abuses that led to the abolition of the military police 1997. The US reportedly likes the idea.