The Guatemalan government has begun a process virtually closing down the agency in charge of preserving and investigating military and police records from the country’s bloody 1960-1996 civil war.
In the latest Honduran police scandal, an ex-agent is prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder of journalist Angel Alfredo Villatoro. He had been shot twice in the head, and media reported that the body was dressed in a police uniform.
Guatemala’s President Otto Perez Molina imposed a state of siege on the remote Maya village of Santa Cruz Barillas after residents overran an army outpost following the assassination of a community leader in the struggle against a hydro-electric project.
Indigenous Miskito residents of Ahuas village on the remote Caribbean coast of Honduras are demanding justice in the wake of a deadly helicopter raid by Honduran National Police and DEA agents—with details still emerging on the scope of the violence.
A Guatemalan judge ruled that former dictator Efrain Rios Montt will have a second genocide trial for ordering a 1982 massacre in which 201 people were killed at the jungle village of Dos Erres.
Campesinos from Honduras’ sprawling and rugged department of Olancho protested outside the national electric company in Tegucigalpa to demand cancellation of the Patuca III hydro-electic project until land rights in the area have been clarified.
Miskito Indians in Honduras burned down government offices in angry protests over a DEA helicopter raid they say killed innocent villagers in a fishing boat. The fracas comes as the Pentagon has established three new bases in Honduras.
The body of Honduran journalist and LGBT rights activist Erick Alex Martínez Avila was found near Tegucigalpa, and another journalist, Alfredo Villatoro, was kidnapped two days later.
Controversial Nicaraguan revolutionary Tomás Borge, the last of the group that founded the Sandinista National Liberation Front, died in a Managua military hospital at age 81.
China's Camc Engineering won the contract to build a major oil facility on Nicaragua's Pacific coast under the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)—as Canadian mining companies rush into the country's remote interior.
More than 3,500 Honduran campesino families occupied land in estates in different parts of the country to demand implementation of an effective national agrarian reform policy.
The AFL-CIO has joined with two Honduran union federations to file a petition with the US Department of Labor asking the US to push the Honduran government to address labor violations.
