The brother of murdered campesino lawyer Antonio Trejo Cabrera was himself gunned down in the latest violent episode in the Aguán Valley’s ongoing land dispute.
The president of a campesino organization claiming disputed lands is arrested, while the landowners and their security guards enjoy impunity amid ongoing violence.
Panama announced the arrest of the top leader of the Oficina de Envigado, a Colombian crime syndicate said to be a surviving remnant of Pablo Escobar's notorious Medellín Cartel.
Edén Pastora, Nicaragua's development czar for the strategic San Juan Basin, threatened a retliatory suit at The Hague for Costa Rica's legal challenge to his dredging operations.
Costa Rica’s Constitutional Tribunal unanimously rejected a case brought by the country’s Mining and Industry Association challenging the 2010 ban on open-pit mining.
In a big shift for the Honduran political scene, the presidential candidate of the newly formed center-left Freedom and Refoundation Party is slightly ahead in a new opinon poll.
An international campaign is demanding that President President Otto Pérez Molina provide land for indigenous campesino families expelled from their fields in the Polochic Valley.
A Guatemalan judge ordered former dictator Efrain Rios Montt to stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in the killing of more than 1,700 Maya villagers.
With Chinese investment, Nicaragua is moving ahead with a new inter-oceanic canal plan—in a race with Panama, which is expanding its own canal for a new era of global trade.
National Congress president Juan Orlando Hernández has introduced a bill to create semi-autonomous zones that look a lot like the “model cities” ruled unconstitutional.
A suspected drug trafficker was killed in the first DEA-backed drug raid in Honduras following a five-month suspension in radar intelligence sharing between the countries.
Two campesinos were shot dead as violence continued in land disputes in the Lower Aguán Valley; the victims had been occupying land claimed by a university.
