A Miskito Council of Elders on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast have announced their secession from the country. The ruling Sandinista government charges the US embassy fomented the move.
Thousands of campesinos blocked roads across Guatemala in a nationwide protest to demand that the government carry out agrarian reform and instate a debt forgiveness program.
Assistant US Trade Representative Everett Eissenstat said President Obama won’t seek approval of a free trade agreement with Panama until he has established a new “framework” for trade.
Thousands of Guatemalans have taken to the streets since the slaying of a prominent lawyer who left a videotape saying that if anything happened to him it was at the behest of the country’s president.
The Inter-American Human Rights Court of the OAS ruled that the Honduran government shared responsibility for the 1995 murder of environmental activist Blanca Jeannette Kawas Fernández.
Canadian mining company Pacific Rim announced this week that it will sue the Salvadoran government over its refusal to issue mining permits for the El Dorado silver and gold mine.
Conservative millionaire magnate Ricardo Martinelli easily won Panama’s presidential election after the left broke with the ruling populist Democratic Revolutionary Party and called for abstentionism.
In a ceremony in Managua, Nicaraguan National Police director Aminta Granera and US ambassador Robert Callahan signed an agreement making Nicaragua a member of the Mérida Initiative.
Hundreds of indigenous Chortí blocked access to Copán archeological park, Honduras’ most important ancient Mayan site, to press demands for land.
Television reporter Rolando Santis was shot dead by gunmen on a motorcycle in Guatemala City, days after attorney Gladys Monterroso was kidnapped and tortured for 13 hours.
The National Security Archive has released declassified documents showing the US government knew US-backed Guatemalan officials were behind the disappearance of thousands in the civil war.
The 6th Circuit US Court of Appeals upheld a decision finding former Salvadoran military commander Nicolas Carranza liable for murder and torture during the country's civil war,
