Rights workers in Guatemala are calling upon the government to protect a Roman Catholic bishop from assassination after a rash of threats. Mgr. Álvaro Ramazzini, Bishop of San Marcos, has been warned that he will be killed unless he withdraws… Read moreGuatemala: bishop recieves death threats for defending campesinos
Tens of thousands from across Nicaragua marched on the capital Managua, including large delegations of campesinos from the countryside, in a "pilgrimage for peace" called by Archbishop Leopoldo Brenes following days of angry protests and repression that left some 50 dead. The Catholic Church agreed to mediate a dialogue between the government and opposition over the planned reform of the social security system that set off the protests. But the "pilgrimage" struck a political tone, with marchers calling for the resignation of President Daniel Ortega. (Photo: Nuevo Diario)
From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), March 11: Central American Solidarity Activists Dispute Department of Justice Order Washington DC — The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), illegally targeted in… Read moreJustice Department harasses Salvador solidarity committee
From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), March 3:
Guatemala’s President Alvaro Colom has ordered the release of military archives from the country’s brutal 1962-1996 civil war. “We are going to make public all military archives…so the truth can be known, and so that once and for all we… Read moreGuatemala to open genocide archives
Several hundred Guatemalan campesinos took 30 police officers hostage [Feb. 21] in response to the jailing of a local farm leader and to demand that land they had been occupying for the last 10 years be legalized by the Guatemalan… Read moreGuatemalan land dispute ends peacefully —for now
From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Feb. 21: On Tuesday, February 19, 13 political activists arrested last July in the town of Suchitoto were set free, and all charges against them were dismissed. This… Read moreAll charges dropped against “Suchitoto 13”
From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Feb. 21: In a recent visit to the United States, Salvadoran president Antonio Saca expressed concern about the findings of a recent US intelligence report, which predicts that… Read moreNational Intelligence Director: Venezuela to intervene in Salvadoran elections
On Feb. 11, the Nicaraguan navy captured the Honduran-flagged fishing boat Seas Star just east of the 82nd meridian in the Caribbean Sea. The 82nd meridian is claimed by Colombia as the border between its territorial waters and those of… Read moreNicaragua’s maritime dispute with Colombia heats up
Airomi Smith, a university student and a leader in Panama’s largest union, the Only Union of Construction and Similar Workers (SUNTRACS), was killed in Colón on Feb. 12 by a gunshot to the abdomen from a police weapon. Smith’s death… Read morePanama: uprising after unionist killed
From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Feb. 13: El Salvador’s Attorney General last Friday [Feb. 8] requested that charges of “acts of terrorism” be dropped against 13 peaceful protesters arrested at a demonstration against… Read moreEl Salvador: terrorism charges dropped against “Suchitoto 13”
The Nueva Vida Women’s Cooperative Maquiladora (COMAMNUVI), a Nicaraguan women’s sewing cooperative in Ciudad Sandino, just outside Managua, says that it is about to lose its land. According to the cooperative, a certain Yelba Carvajal is suing in court to… Read moreNicaragua: women’s coop may lose its land
