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.
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.
