Central America
Panama: strikes halt trade zone land sale
Days of strikes and protests in Panama’s cities forced the government to cancel a planned sale of lands in the Colón Free Trade Zone to multinational corporations.
Tag: Central America
Central America
Honduras: court quashes ‘model cities’; investors eye Jamaica
With “model cities” rejected by the Supreme Court in Honduras, proponents are looking to take the neoliberal scheme to Jamaica—and maybe even to Greece.
Central America
Guatemala: arrests in peasant massacre
Guatemalan authorities arrested a colonel and eight soldiers over the extrajudicial killings of eight indigenous protestors in the department of Totonicapan last week.
Central America
Guatemala claims arrest of local Zetas boss
Guatemalan authorities arrested the presumed leader of a Zetas cell in the region along the Mexican border, where the group's incursion has forced the displacement of local residents.
Central America
Honduras: Supreme Court blocks ‘model cities’ —for now
The Honduran Supreme Court ruled that legislation creating autonomous regions known as “Model Cities” is unconstitutional. President Lobo expects to go ahead with the project anyway.
Central America
Guatemala: peasant massacre under investigation
Seven were killed and some 40 wounded when security forces attacked a protest road blockade by Maya indigenous campesinos in the Guatemalan highlands.
Central America
Honduras: second human rights attorney murdered
Unidentified assailants gunned down Public Ministry prosecutor Eduardo Manuel Díaz less than two full days after the similar murder of activist attorney Antonio Trejo.
Central America
UN report: drug trafficking threatens rule of law
Drug trafficking and violent crime in Central America and the Caribbean threaten the rule of law in those regions, according to a report by the UN Office of Drugs and Crime.
Central America
Honduras: lawyer for Aguán and ‘Model Cities’ struggles is murdered
Unknown assailants gunned down activist attorney Antonio Trejo, who was active in two major political conflicts: the Aguán land and a struggle over the “Model Cities” project.
Central America
Guatemala: wins, threats for peasant ecologists
Charges were dropped against 10 campesino opponents of a hydro-electric project on Maya lands in Guatemala, but other leaders remain in prison and face death threats.
Central America
Honduras: ‘model cities’ project set to begin?
A government commision has signed an agreement for the first of three “model city” projects, semi-autonomous regions mandated under a controversial 2010 constitutional amendment.
Central America
Central America: Dole starts to pay in pesticide settlement
Dole Food has finally begun funding a settlement it made more than a year ago with some 5,000 former banana workers with health problems linked to the use of pesticides.