Central America
Central America: child migrant ‘crisis’ vanishes
There was extensive media coverage of the spike in border crossings by Central American minors in June, but little reporting when it suddenly came to an end.
Tag: Guatemala
Central America
Guatemala: trial starts in 1980 embassy fire
After 34 years someone is finally going on trial for the grisly deaths of 37 activists and officials at the Spanish embassy. Police held back firefighters as the victims burned.
Central America
Guatemala: police occupy town after violence
The government blames a violent confrontation on indigenous activists resisting construction of a cement factory owned by contributors to the president's election campaign.
Central America
Guatemala: eight die in cement factory dispute
A conflict over construction of a cement factory already killed one in 2008; eight more died this month as plans for a highway added to tensions in an indigenous community.
Central America
Guatemala: bishop’s killer runs prison ring
Guatemala has arrested leaders of a prison bribery network, with help from a UN commission, but it's not clear how serious the government is about prosecuting them.
Central America
Guatemala: activists defeat ‘Monsanto Law’
In the latest defeat for GMOs in Latin America, Guatemala's congress rolled back a CAFTA-mandated law to protect hybrid and GM seeds as "intellectual property."
Central America
Central America: leaders hold migration summit
The US offered Central American child migrants compassion and deportation at a DC summit, while the presidents of Guatemala and Honduras lobbied for more military aid.
Central America
Central America: what’s causing child migration?
Hopes for leniency in the US drive the increase in child migration from Central America, according to the US media; activists and reporters from the region tell a different story.
Central America
Central America: US acts on child migrant ‘danger’
US officials designate the arrival of unaccompanied children at the border a security problem–and scramble to shift blame from Washington's own failed "drug war."
Central America
Guatemala: ex-police head convicted —in Europe
The fight against impunity in Guatemala moves to Europe: an ex-police chief is convicted in Switzerland, and an ex-interior minister awaits trial in Spain.
Central America
Guatemala passes genocide denial resolution
Guatemala's Congress approved a resolution denying that any genocide took place during the country's 1960-1996 civil war that left some 250,000 dead—overwhelmingly Maya peasants.
Central America
Guatemala: deadly attack on indigenous village
Indigenous opponents of two hydroelectric projects in Guatemala's highlands are under attack from paramilitaries, as repression increases throughout the society.