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.
Costa Rica’s Caribbean ports signed an agreement with the dockworkers union for privatization of the facilities. The move follows a “coup d’état” that purged union leadership.
The Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguán (MUCA) reported that the police and military forcibly removed campesinos from at least four cooperatives in the northern Atlantic region of Honduras.
A Honduran truth and reconciliation commission began investigating the June 2009 coup that removed Manuel Zelaya from power—as a wave of killings of journalists has terrorized the country.
US immigration agents arrested a South Florida man accused of involvement in Guatemala’s December 1982 massacre at Dos Erres village that left more than 250 dead.
In Panama, Honduras and Guatamala, workers marched to oppose neoliberal economic policies, while marchers in El Salvador demanded the new FMLN government “comply with the change.”
A new report from Doctors of the World finds dangerous and degrading conditions for women in Guatemalan maquiladoras.
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison has announced that the institution is cancelling its sports apparel contract with Nike over conditions in the company’s Honduras maquilas.
For the first time the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has included Honduras among the countries that it “believed warranted special attention.”
Honduran president Porfirio Lobo signed an agreement with the Aguán campesino movement, granting some 2,600 families about 11,000 hectares of land.
China signed a free trade agreement with Costa Rica—a country that only established diplomatic ties with the Asian giant in 2007, and the third in Latin America to sign an FTA with Beijing.
