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.
Protesters and legal experts raise questions about a court’s decision on the RĂos Montt conviction; meanwhile, Guatemala suddenly extradites another ex-president to the US.
Honduran police disperse a protest by indigenous Lenca communities; two days later, police claim to find a gun in a Lenca leader’s car.
