Since his election as Nicaragua’s president last November, Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) has pledged to end his country’s participation in the IMF, weighed in for Iran’s right to nuclear power, and announced new drives for… Read moreDeja vu in Nicaragua: our readers write
Busloads of people surrounded the Salvador del Mundo monument in front of the Canadian Embassy in San Salvador today to protest the Canadian Government’s role Central American mining, and specifically in the 29 mining projects currently active in El Salvador…. Read moreCentral Americans protest Canadian mining cartel
On May 16, during a visit to Washington, DC, Costa Rican president Oscar Arias announced that Costa Rica will stop sending police agents to be trained at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), a US military training institution… Read moreCosta Rica drops out of SOA
Downtown San Salvador was rocked by clashes between police and protesters May 12 after authorities tried to clear the stalls of street merchants who were peddling pirate CDs and other contraband. The elite riot squad, the Unit for the Maintenance… Read moreProtests in El Salvador: “acts of terrorism”?
According to government figures, nearly 2,000 current and former employees of two sugar mills in the Chichigalpa region of northwestern Nicaragua suffer from chronic renal insufficiency (CRI), a fatal kidney disease. While the cause remains a mystery, a workers group… Read moreNicaragua: mystery illness strikes sugar mill workers
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, on a tour of Latin America, stopped in Nicaragua April 23, where President Daniel Ortega expressed his support for Tehran’s nuclear program. “All countries should be allowed to access peaceful nuclear technology and this right… Read moreNicaragua: yes to Iran; no to IMF
Tierramérica reports [April 21] that grassroots organizations in the department of Olancho, Honduras, are fighting both for the enforcement of a partial ban decreed to stop illegal logging, as well as justice punishment of the assassins of two Honduran environmentalists… Read moreHonduras: campesino ecologists under threat
Petroleos de Nicaragua (Petronic) has announced construction of an oil refinery in the Central American nation, with aid from Venezuela as part of Hugo Chavez’s proposed Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). Work is to begin on the “Sandino-Bolivar” refinery… Read moreNicaragua tilts to Venezuela —and away from PPP
from Weekly News Update on the Americas: Guatemala: Three Salvadoran Reps Murdered; Accused Killers Follow Them to Grave Three Salvadoran legislative deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN) were murdered along with their driver on the afternoon of Feb. 19… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: DEATH SQUADS FREELANCE FOR NARCOS
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: DEATH SQUADS FREELANCE FOR NARCOSFrom AP, March 9: GUATEMALA CITY — Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate “bad spirits” after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday. “That a person like (Bush),… Read moreGuatemala: Maya priests to purify sacred site after Bush visit
1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, a defender of Guatemala’s Maya people during the genocide of the late 1970s and ’80s, will run in the nation’s September presidential election with the Juntos por Guatemala (Together for Guatemala) party and… Read moreGuatemala: Rigoberta Menchu announces presidential bid
Security Forces Burn Peasant Settlements for Canadian Nickel Firm by Bill Weinberg, Indian Country Today On January 8, some 200 Guatemalan army troops and twice as many national police occupied two Qeq’chi (Kekchi) Maya indigenous communities at El Estor, a… Read moreGUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYA
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYA
