On June 12, Garifuna leader Felix Ordoñez Suazo was assassinated at the community of Punta Piedras, in ColĂłn department on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Community residents identified the killers as members of a group of land invaders who have… Read moreGarifuna leader assassinated in Honduras
On May 28, some 200 Nicaraguan women marked International Day of Action for Women’s Health with a protest in Managua to demand the decriminalization of therapeutic abortion. Dozens of vehicles formed a caravan that drove past the Supreme Court, the… Read moreCentral America: women protest abortion bans
From Reuters, June 10: TEHRAN – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who wants more aid from the United States, called on Sunday for a new world order to replace “capitalism and imperialism”, at the start of a trip to arch U.S…. Read moreDaniel Ortega schmoozes ayatollahs
The Guatemalan Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by activists to block the candidacy of former dictator JosĂ© EfraĂn RĂos Montt in congressional elections this Sept. 9. However, Supreme Court Spokesman Guillermo Melgar said that that the ruling can be… Read moreGuatemala: court accepts, activists reject ex-dictator’s candidacy
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
TierramĂ©rica 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
