Mexican drug cartels that use cattle ranching to launder narco-profits as well as Chinese-backed illegal timber gangs are eating into Guatemala's vast Maya Biosphere Reserve.
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.
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.
Guatemalan authorities arrested a colonel and eight soldiers over the extrajudicial killings of eight indigenous protestors in the department of Totonicapan last week.
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.
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.
Seven were killed and some 40 wounded when security forces attacked a protest road blockade by Maya indigenous campesinos in the Guatemalan highlands.
Unidentified assailants gunned down Public Ministry prosecutor Eduardo Manuel Díaz less than two full days after the similar murder of activist attorney Antonio Trejo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
