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 MartĂnez 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.
Four Honduran campesinos were killed and 11 were wounded in an ambush in the northern department of ColĂłn just three days after a similar attack in the same area left five soldiers wounded.
Some 1,500 indigenous campesinos arrived in Guatemala City after an eight-day, 214-km walk from Cobán to promote their demands for land, debt cancellation and a halt to mining operations.
Former general Pedro Pimentel has been sentenced to 6,030 years in prison for his participation in a 1982 massacre of 201 civilians–most of them women and children–in the village of Dos Erres.
Ngöbe-BuglĂ© leaders reached an agreement with the Panamanian government that would ban mining in the group’s territory and limit hydroelectric projects–but there is strong opposition.
