The UN announced its approval of the arrest of Gen. Hector Mario López, former Guatemalan armed forces chief accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during his tenure from 1982-3.
Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, a young opponent of the local Pacific Rim gold mine in El Salvador’s Cabañas department, was found dead days after his disappearance last week—and quickly buried by authorities in a mass grave.
Campesino organizations from the Lower Aguán Valley marched in Tegucigalpa to protest the killings of Aguán campesinos and to demand that the government keep its land distribution promises.
The Guatemalan government is planning not to honor a year-old order from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR, or CIDH in Spanish) to suspend operations at the Marlin gold mine in the western department of San Marcos, according to… Read moreGuatemala: government said to OK Goldcorp mine
Talks on a Mexico-Central America free trade zone wrapped up as long-standing regional political disputes were officially resolved. But increased integration comes with stepped-up “anti-crime” military efforts.
Thousands of Hondurans gathered at Tegucigalpa’s Toncontín International Airport to greet former president Manuel (“Mel”) Zelaya (2006-2009) as he returned from a 16-month exile.
Ousted Honduran president Mel Zelaya and incumbent Porfirio Lobo signed a pact that will allow Zelaya to return to the country and “normalize” relations with the OAS. The next day, another journalist was shot in Tegucigalpa.
Guatemalan police arrested a presumed leader of the Zetas narco-paramilitary network who authorities say is likely commander of the assassin squad that carried out this week's grisly massacre of 27 farmworkers.
Honduran campesino Henry Roney Díaz was killed when soldiers, police and private guards tried to remove campesinos occupying an estate in the Aguán River Valley in the northern department of Colón.
Guatemalan authorities announced the discovery of 27 bodies—all but one decapitated—at a ranch in the northern jungle of Petén. The victims were farmworkers who were apparently massacred by a Zeta narco-trafficking cell.
From Chile to Mexico, Latin American May Day marches focused on demands for wage increases and for fighting the high cost of living following recent jumps in food and fuel prices.
Central American militaries are the main source of the Mexican cartels’ heavy weapons, the US embassy in Mexico wrote in a confidential 2009 cable released by the WikiLeaks.
