On Feb. 26 the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) charged that the Costa Rican government in effect “illegally established a ‘yellow’ trade union” for 1,500 dockworkers.
Several thousand marched in Tegucigalpa to demand an end to the escalation of repression, and against the neoliberal policies of the new Honduran government.
Amnesty International urged authorities in El Salvador to repeal an amnesty law that protects those responsible for thousands of killings and disappearances in the country’s armed conflict.
Unidentified gunmen killed Honduran journalist NahĂșm Palacios Arteaga in the city of Tocoaâthe third deadly attack against the Honduran press in the last two weeks.
Hundreds of Honduran soldiers, police and agents of the National Criminal Investigation Directorate removed thousands of families from lands they were living on outside Tegucigalpa.
After lengthy negotiations on Feb. 26, Guatemala’s new education minister, Dennis Alonzo, and Joviel Acevedo, head of the 80,000-member National Teachers Assembly (ANM), reached an agreement settling a wage dispute that had set off a series of militant actions starting… Read moreGuatemala: teachers’ strike settled
In Guatemala for a Drug War summit, Hillary Clinton called for recognition of the new Honduran governmentâand was accused by Hugo ChĂĄvez of “planting seeds of discord.”
Guatemalan union leaders and their families filed a lawsuit in New York, accusing the world’s biggest beverage company of complicity in violence against labor leaders.
Guatemalan troops and DEA agents destroyed 319 million opium plants and 250,000 marijuana plants in San Marcos department, considered a “sanctuary” of drug cultivation.
Guatemalan authorities arrested three top anti-narcotics officials on corruption charges, as other leading officials went public with the existence of resurgent death squads.
Thousands of Guatemalan public school teachers blocked roads and occupied the capital’s central plaza to press their demands for a 16% pay raise.
The new Honduran government brought fresh corruption charges against the exiled Manuel Zelaya, but also removed the military chief who ousted him in last year’s coup d’etat.
