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.
Survivors and rights advocates hugged each other when the ex-dictator was convicted of genocide, but the current president must be thinking about his own role in the civil war.
President PĂ©rez Molina was forced to give up his effort to contain indigenous protests against a Canadian-owned silver mine by suspending constitutional rights.
Confusing court decisions and legal maneuvers seem designed to delay a verdict in the trial of a former military dictator accused in the deaths of indigenous civilians.
Some 80,000 Salvadorans took to the streets on May Day to oppose privatization initiatives mandated by the US State Department’s Partnership for Growth program.
Guatemala’s government declared a state of emergency in four municipalities in the eastern highlands following clashes between police and anti-mining protesters.
US labor groups say Sae-A managers arranged an attack on unionists, while mainstream Nicaraguan unions say it’s a US conspiracy. Next stop for Sae-A is Haiti.
Indigenous survivors of the Guatemalan army’s “scorched earth” strategy in the 1980s say they will push to lift the suspension of a former dictator’s genocide trial.
Citing escalated criminal violence, Honduras’ Congress suspended the prosecutor generalâbut has not acted against the National Police chief, accused of death squad links.
Murders of activists continue while attention is focused on the trial of former dictator RĂos Montt and testimony against current president PĂ©rez Molina.
Masked men killed an indigenous activist from the Ngöbe-BuglĂ© people after a protest against the Barro Blanco dam in Panama’s western ChiriquĂ department.
