An indigenous leader, an Afro-Honduran LGBT activist and a judge working for judicial reform were killed, and two foreign rights observers were abductedâall in less than two weeks.
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.
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.
Indigenous Lenca communities continue their protests against the Agua Zarca dam; they accuse the army in the death of one protester and the wounding of his son.
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.
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.
Violence continues in northern Honduras, with death threats against opponents of open-pit mining and the murder of a longtime campesino leader and his son.
Representatives from 40 organizations were present when a court decidedâat least for now–not to pursue a dubious weapons possession charge against Berta CĂĄceres.
Guatemala’s President Otto PĂ©rez Molina inaugurated a new paramilitary force after an armed attack on a National Police post left eight officers dead and a commander abducted.
Nicaragua sealed a pact granting Chinese business magnate Wang Jing exclusive rights to build a multibillion-dollar inter-oceanic canal through the Central American nation.
Campesinos are protesting three dams planned for the area where they live; meanwhile, the indigenous Ngöbe Buglé are still fighting a dam being built in their territory.
The OAS summit in Guatemala opens in the wake of a ground-breaking report dissenting from the US-led “drug war” and broaching decrim and legalization strategies.
