Protesters blocked highways in the latest round between Panama’s largest indigenous group and rightwing president Ricardo Martinelli over environmental protections in indigenous territories.
Two men on a motorcycle gunned down Honduran campesino activist MatĂas Valle Cárdenas as he was leaving his home in the Lower Aguán Valley, the site of often violent land disputes.
A Guatemalan judge ruled that there was sufficient evidence to try former military dictator Gen. EfraĂn RĂos Montt for genocide, but the current president denies there was genocide.
After years of impunity, former Guatemalan military dictator Gen. EfraĂn RĂos Montt (1982-83) is to appear before a judge this month in what could become a trial for genocide.
Three unidentified men gunned down attorney JosĂ© Ricardo Rosales in the coastal city of Tela just four days after a newspaper reported on Rosales’ claim that local police agents had abused detainees.
Eight people, including four children, were murdered in the village of Regaderos, in the Lower Aguán Valley, the site of several violent land disputes between campesinos and large landowners.
Marco Aurelio Lorenzo, an activist Catholic priest based in western Honduras, has filed a criminal complaint charging that he and his two brothers were tortured by eight police agents the day after Christmas.
Center-right Honduran president Pepe Lobo intends to have the country return to Petrocaribe, a program through which Venezuela provides oil to other Caribbean countries at favorable terms.
Alfredo Landaverde, a former adviser to the Honduran government on security and drug trafficking, was shot dead by unknown gunmen on a motorcycle as he was driving in Tegucigalpa.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has withdrawn a 2010 order for the Guatemalan government to suspend operations at Goldcorp Inc.’s controversial Marlin gold mine.
El Salvador's government held a ceremony at El Mozote village to ask survivors' forgiveness—just as an ex-military commander takes over as Public Security Minister in a move apparently prompted by the US embassy.
Rights groups in El Salvador noted the anniversary of the massacre of 966 villagers at El Mozote by a US-trained battalion, decrying continued impunity after 30 years. The authors of the massacre are known, but protected by an amnesty law.
