Guatemalan authorities issued an arrest warrant for former president Alfonso Portillo, after the US government requested his extradition to face money laundering charges.
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.
An investigation by the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) concluded that activist attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg planned his own assassination.
Honduran prosecutors filed charges against three military chiefs in the ouster of president Manuel Zelaya in Juneābut Zelaya himself dismissed the move as a political “trick.”
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.
A Guatemalan court issued warrants for two businessmen as “intellectual authors” in the murder of attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg, who had warned that Presdient Ćlvaro Colom sought his death.
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.
Dora “Alicia” Recinos Sorto, 32, was assassinated in El Salvador’s CabaƱas departmentāthe second anti-mining activist killed there this week. She was eight months pregnant.
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.
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).
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.
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.
