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,
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
