Some 500 Honduran soldiers and police agents reportedly occupied the regional office of the National Agrarian Institute (INA) in ColĂłn 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.
Nicaragua has refused to withdraw troops from a disputed island along the river border with Costa Rica, and is asking Google not to change its maps with respect to the contested area.
A group of Costa Rican environmental activists held a “Cultural Festival for Life” to conclude a hunger strike they began on Oct. 8 against the projected Las Crucitas open-pit gold mine.
Guatemala’s Environment Ministry has filed a criminal complaint against the local subsidiary of the Goldcorp mining giant for possible pollution of the Quivichil River.
Representatives of Honduran unions and grassroots movements agreed to schedule a series of actions over the next two weeks around the national minimum wage and other labor issues.
A Guatemalan judge sentenced two ex-officers to 40 years in prison over the 1984 disappearance of 27-year-old union leaderâthe first case to use evidence discovered in abandoned police archives.
Three Costa Rican environmental activists marked two weeks on hunger strike against the projected Las Crucitas open-pit gold mine in San Carlos in the north of the country.
Costa Rica dispatched a group of heavily armed police to the northern border following claims of a Nicaraguan military incursion in the San Juan river basin, a prospective inter-oceanic canal route.
After 90 days of negotiations with unions and social organizations, the government of right-wing Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli approved an agreement to rescind a controversial labor law.
Barack Obama personally apologized by phone to Guatemalan president Ălvaro Colom for a US program that purposely infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in a 1946-48 experiment.
“But what’s the problem with that?” Honduran president Porfirio Lobo said when a reporter asked about calls from unions and grassroots organizations to rewrite the country’s 1982 Constitution.
