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 leaderāthe 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 Ćlvaro 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.
The National Front of Popular Resistance and other organizations protested the participation of the Honduran de facto president, Porfirio Lobo, in the sessions of the UN General Assembly in New York.
