Four more campesinos were killed in the Aguán Valley, a site of violent land disputes, as international activists pressured the World Bank over a loan to the leading Aguán landowner.
With “model cities” rejected by the Supreme Court in Honduras, proponents are looking to take the neoliberal scheme to Jamaica—and maybe even to Greece.
Mara Salvatrucha, the Salvadoran street gang that got its start in Los Angeles' Koreatown, has been officially designated by US authorities as an "transnational criminal organization."
The Honduran Supreme Court ruled that legislation creating autonomous regions known as “Model Cities” is unconstitutional. President Lobo expects to go ahead with the project anyway.
Unidentified assailants gunned down Public Ministry prosecutor Eduardo Manuel DĂaz less than two full days after the similar murder of activist attorney Antonio Trejo.
Drug trafficking and violent crime in Central America and the Caribbean threaten the rule of law in those regions, according to a report by the UN Office of Drugs and Crime.
Unknown assailants gunned down activist attorney Antonio Trejo, who was active in two major political conflicts: the Aguán land and a struggle over the “Model Cities” project.
A government commision has signed an agreement for the first of three “model city” projects, semi-autonomous regions mandated under a controversial 2010 constitutional amendment.
Dole Food has finally begun funding a settlement it made more than a year ago with some 5,000 former banana workers with health problems linked to the use of pesticides.
Five people died violently in the Aguán region in less than a week; at least two of the deaths appeared related to campesino struggles for land now held by big landowners.
Some 45 campesinos from Honduras’ conflicted Aguán Valley were arrested in protests demanding the Supreme Court issue rulings in favor of campesino struggles for land.
A total of 25 high school students from the Honduras Technical Institute in Tegucigalpa were arrested when the National Police broke up a protest with clubs and tear gas.
