Honduran police have blamed street gangs linked to Mexican drug cartels for the killing of at least 18 employees in a shoe factory in the northern industrial city of San Pedro Sula.
A court in Honduras convicted seven men in the 2016 murder of indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres. Until her assassination Cáceres had been leading a campaign against the Agua Zarca dam, a joint project by Honduran company Desarrollos Energéticos SA (DESA) and Chinese-owned Sinohydro. The dam was being built on the Rio Gualcarque without prior consultation with the Lenca indigenous community that depends on the river for their food and water. Cáceres, who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015, had received numerous threats for her activism against the dam before she was killed by gunmen at her home in the town of La Esperanza. Two of those convicted are former DESA managers. (Photo by UN Environment/ONU Brasil via Wikimedia Commons)
Hundreds students, professors and staff from the University of El Salvador took to the streets to commemorate of the military regime’s massacre of student protesters on July 30, 1975.
In a decision highlighting the implications of US trade pacts for the national sovereignty of member countries, a World Bank tribunal approved a Canadian mining company’s lawsuit against El Salvador.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega accused Colombia of granting oil exploration permits in waters disputed between the two countries—with a case still pending at the International Court of Justice.
Panama’s National Front for the Defense of Social Rights claimed success in a 24-hour national strike that shut down construction work and schools with 95% effectiveness.
Costa Rica has granted the US military a six-month window to bring 7,000 Marines, five planes and 46 warships into its territory to help intercept north-bound narcotics.
Nicaragua’s National Assembly ratified the only international law for indigenous peoples’ rights, International Labor Organization Convention 169, making it the 22nd country to do so.
Tropical storm “Agatha” has left nearly 200 dead across Central America, as a new study warns of a grave toll on local farmers from global climate change.
Two-time Honduran dictator Oswaldo López Arellano, who led the “Football War” with El Salvador and was brought down in the “Bananagate” scandal, has died a free man.
In an effort to normalize relations, Honduras has dropped its World Court case against Brazil for the sheltering of Manuel Zelaya in the Brazilian embassy following last year’s coup.
A Honduran truth and reconciliation commission began investigating the June 2009 coup that removed Manuel Zelaya from power—as a wave of killings of journalists has terrorized the country.
