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,
The FMLN won El Salvador’s presidential elections Sunday, ending 20 years of rule by the right-wing ARENA. President-elect Mauricio Funes pledged “a new accord on peace and reconciliation.”
Salvadorans marched against the Central America free trade agreement currently being negotiated with the European Union, charging it would increase the gap between rich and poor.
On March 11—just four days before El Salvador’s historic election for president and vice-president—five Republican Congressmen gave speeches on the floor of the House of Representatives threatening that Salvadorans living in the US would lose their immigration status and be… Read moreUS pledges to respect neutrality in Salvador elections —despite GOP bluster
Indigenous Hondurans closed off roads in Intibucá department in a 12-day mobilization against the destruction of forests in the territories of the Lenca people.
A Colombian refugee living in Panama was killed in Darién province, a jungle region bordering Colombia that has experienced incursions in the past by Colombian armed groups.
Following a campaign that included sit-ins in government offices, teachers in Honduras began an open-ended strike to demand months of back pay last week. The government has agreed to negotiations.
