Central America
El Salvador bans metallic mining
El Salvador became the first country on Earth to completely ban the mining of metals—following a long campaign by campesinos and their ecologist allies.
Tag: Central America
Central America
Guatemala: Barrio 18 gang in deadly prison siege
Three guards were killed as riot police stormed a juvenile detention center outside Guatemala City, where members of the notorious Barrio 18 narco-gang had staged un uprising.
Central America
Nicaragua nabs cocaine lord of Miskito Coast
A Colombian cartel operative who established Central America's remote and lawless Miskito Coast as a major cocaine transfer point was arrested by Nicaraguan authorities.
Central America
Climate change and Bolivia’s crisis drought
A local campesino looks out on what remains of the Desaguadero River. Lake Poopó was once Bolivia's second largest lake, after Titicaca—the two connected by the Desaguadero. Now climate change has melted the Andean glaciers that fed Poopó. Water from its tributaries… Read moreClimate change and Bolivia’s crisis drought
Central America
Central America: tri-national anti-gang task force
A joint security force bringing together the three nations of Central America's Northern Triangle officially began operations to fight narco-gangs and organized crime.
Central America
Post-electoral violence in Nicaragua
Followers of the indigenous party Yatama clashed with police and supporters of the ruling FSLN on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast in the aftermath of contested national elections.
Central America
Honduras: protest slaying of campesino leaders
Rights activists and indigenous protesters clashed with riot police in Tegucigalpa following the murder of two prominent campesino leaders—the latest in a wave of repressive terror.
Central America
Guatemala: constitutional reform advances indigenous rights
A draft bill on constitutional justice reforms now pending in the Guatemalan congress would recognize indigenous peoples' legal jurisdiction over internal matters.
Central America
El Salvador reopens massacre investigation
A court in El Salvador will reopen an investigation into the Mozote massacre of 1981, following petitioning by attorneys and international human rights groups.
Central America
Another environmental activist slain in Honduras
An army deserter says US-backed death squads within the Honduran military are responsible for a wave of assassinations targeting indigenous and ecologist leaders.
Central America
Panama: water shortages threaten ‘mega’ canal
Panama opened the long-awaited expanded canal, designed to accommodate new "mega-ships." But the drought-stricken country struggles to conserve water for the giant locks.
Central America
Anti-canal leader arrested in Nicaragua
Francisca Ramírez Torres, leader of the movement against the planned Nicaraguan canal, was arrested without charge by National Police agents in a raid on her village.