Honduras: whither amnesty?

The Honduran Congress voted to put off an amnesty for coup leaders until a new congress convenes after the president-elect Porfirio Lobo Sosa takes power later this month.

Guatemala: murdered lawyer planned his own death

An investigation by the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) concluded that activist attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg planned his own assassination.

Honduras: prosecutors charge military officials for Zelaya ouster

Honduran prosecutors filed charges against three military chiefs in the ouster of president Manuel Zelaya in June—but Zelaya himself dismissed the move as a political “trick.”

Honduras: arson attack on Garifuna community radio station

Unknown assailants carried out an arson attack against the Garifuna-language Radio Coco Dulce at Triunfo de la Cruz on the Caribbean coast of Honduras.

Guatemala: two charged as “authors” of lawyer’s murder

A Guatemalan court issued warrants for two businessmen as “intellectual authors” in the murder of attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg, who had warned that Presdient Álvaro Colom sought his death.

Panama: families mark 20 years since US invasion

Survivors of the 1989 US invasion of Panama marked the 20th anniversary with a protest at the old US embassy in Panama City, burning effigies of Barack Obama and Panama’s new president.

El Salvador: another anti-mining activist assassinated

Dora “Alicia” Recinos Sorto, 32, was assassinated in El Salvador’s Cabañas department—the second anti-mining activist killed there this week. She was eight months pregnant.

Honduras: reporter threatened over election story

Rights watchdogs warn that Swedish journalist Dick Emanuelsson is in danger following an article he wrote questioning official turnout projections in the Honduran general elections.

Honduras: de factos to leave ALBA, keep oil deal

De facto Honduran president Roberto Micheletti Bain sent the National Congress a proposal to withdraw from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA).

El Salvador: another anti-mining activist assassinated

Ramiro Rivera, a leader in the struggle against massive gold mining projects proposed by the Vancouver-based Pacific Rim company, was assassinated in Ilobasco, El Salvador.

Honduras: reject amnesty for abuses during coup

The proposal by Porfirio Lobo, winner of Honduras’ disputed presidential election, for an “amnesty for all” involved in the coup undermines the rule of law, Human Rights Watch charges.

Gay activist assassinated in Honduras

Walter Trochez, a well-known LGBT leader in Honduras and activist in the resistance against the coup d’etat, was gunned down by drive-by killers in central Tegucigalpa.