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

Guatemala: mining companies are dealt setbacks

Courts in Guatemala and Canada have issued important rulings in favor of anti-mining activists, and even President Pérez Molina has called for a moratorium on new licenses.

Central America

Honduras: kidnapped journalist found murdered

The body of a popular TV talk show was found two weeks after his kidnapping; meanwhile, a radio labor reporter is getting death threats for his exposés on a Chiquita supplier.

Central America

Guatemala: residents protest factory opening

Local residents in SacatepĂ©quez continue their six-year campaign against a cement processing plant, despite management’s effort to appease them with a Mayan ceremony.