Campesino leaders report army abuses against local indigenous peasants in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz since a “state of siege” was declared there.
The National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) marched in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, in solidarity with the protest movement in Egypt, blocking traffic on a major thoroughfare.
Ngobe protesters streamed into Panama’s capital city and blocked the street in front of the Legislative Palace to protest their exclusion from an committee on the mineral code.
Honduran campesino leader Juan Ramón Chinchilla was safe and was staying in an undisclosed location on Jan. 11 after two days in captivity.
Honduras’ National Congress passed reforms the Constitution that would open the way to changing key elements of the document–including the ban on presidential reelection–by popular referendum.
Guatemala has declared a state of emergency along the jungle border with Mexico in response to threats from Los Zetas. The narco gang responded by declaring “war” on the Guatemalan state.
Honduran police, soldiers and private guards injured three campesinos and detained 12 during an attempt to evict a family from their home in Coyolito on the Zacate Grande peninsula.
Angelica Choc and her lawyers announced a lawsuit in Ontario, Canada, against the Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals Inc. for the murder of Choc’s husband.
Hundreds of campesinos marched in Tegucigalpa to demand that the Honduran government resolve longstanding land conflicts in the Lower Aguán River Valley.
About 5,000 activists marched in front of the US Army’s Fort Benning base in Columbus, Georgia, in the 20th annual protest against the US Army School of the Americas (SOA).
Some 500 Honduran soldiers and police agents reportedly occupied the regional office of the National Agrarian Institute (INA) in Colón department, apparently in a search for arms.
Following a wave of ecologist protests, Costa Rica’s congress unanimously approved revisions to the Mining Code that would ban open-pit mining of heavy metals in future projects.
