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.
Tag: Central America
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.
Central America
Honduras: US-Korean maquila accused of CAFTA labor violations
US and Honduran unions are trying to leverage CAFTA labor agreements to get the government to act against a Lear Corporation auto parts assembly plant.
Central America
Costa Rica: eight arrested in turtle defender’s killing
Under international pressure, Costa Rican authorities arrested eight people in connection with the murder of an environmental activist two months earlier.
Central America
Honduras: attacks on human rights activists increase
An indigenous leader, an Afro-Honduran LGBT activist and a judge working for judicial reform were killed, and two foreign rights observers were abducted—all in less than two weeks.
Central America
Nicaragua: indigenous groups challenge canal plan
Nicaraguan civil society groups in the Caribbean region have challenged plans by a Hong Kong company to build an interoceanic canal through the Central American country.