A campaign started by students at North American campuses in 2009 around the labor practices of Oregon-based Nike, Inc. in Honduras appears be on its way to winning several new victories.
Panama’s National Front for the Defense of Social Rights claimed success in a 24-hour national strike that shut down construction work and schools with 95% effectiveness.
Costa Rica has granted the US military a six-month window to bring 7,000 Marines, five planes and 46 warships into its territory to help intercept north-bound narcotics.
About 200 Costa Ricans joined a Pride march along Paseo Colón to the central park in San José. “Being gay isn’t a sickness, it’s a sexual preference,” said one participant.
The Guatemalan government agreed to suspend operations at Goldcorp Inc.’s controversial Marlin gold mine, but says there is “no exact day yet” for closure of the facility.
Soldiers, police and private guards entered La Aurora estate in the Aguán Valley of northern Honduras and attacked campesinos encamped there. One youth was killed in the operation.
Nicaragua’s National Assembly ratified the only international law for indigenous peoples’ rights, International Labor Organization Convention 169, making it the 22nd country to do so.
Tropical storm “Agatha” has left nearly 200 dead across Central America, as a new study warns of a grave toll on local farmers from global climate change.
In an interview on Spanish CCN, Honduran president Porfirio Lobo Sosa agreed that the removal of former president Manuel (“Mel”) Zelaya (2006-2009) from office on June 28, 2009 was a coup d’état.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS) ordered the Guatemalan government to suspend operations at the Marlin gold mine within 20 days.
Two-time Honduran dictator Oswaldo López Arellano, who led the “Football War” with El Salvador and was brought down in the “Bananagate” scandal, has died a free man.
In an effort to normalize relations, Honduras has dropped its World Court case against Brazil for the sheltering of Manuel Zelaya in the Brazilian embassy following last year’s coup.
