Local residents in Sacatepéquez 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 decided—at least for now–not to pursue a dubious weapons possession charge against Berta Cáceres.
Guatemala’s President Otto Pérez 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 Ríos 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 Pérez 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.
