Fears are being raised for the security of activists and human rights observers in Honduras following the assassination of indigenous leader Berta Cáceres.
Berta Cáceres, a prominent indigenous activist in Honduras who last year won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, was slain in her home at La Esperanza village.
Three members of the the Rosenthal family, a pillar of ruling elite in Honduras, were charged by US authorities with money-laundering.
Peru's government made much of its rainforest protection efforts at the Lima climate summit—but a new report names it as the fourth most dangerous country for ecology activists.
A raid by a new DEA-trained Honduran anti-narco force took down the country's reigning kingpin, José Inocente Valle, who possessed a cache of gold bars stamped "SINALOA."
Central America's rainforests are being destroyed by drug traffickers who cut roads and airstirps on officially protected lands, according to a paper in the journal Science.
After 40 years of conflicts, protests and negotiations, the government of Honduras formally granted indigenous communities title to nearly all of the country’s remote Miskito Coast.
More than 160 civil society organizations sent an open letter to the OAS summit, calling for alternatives to the “war on drugs” that guarantee respect for human rights.
The OAS summit in Guatemala opens in the wake of a ground-breaking report dissenting from the US-led “drug war” and broaching decrim and legalization strategies.
Citing escalated criminal violence, Honduras’ Congress suspended the prosecutor general—but has not acted against the National Police chief, accused of death squad links.
An AP probe refutes US claims that no police aid to Honduras goes to units under the force's overall commander Juan Carlos Bonilla AKA "El Tigre"—an accused death squad leader.
Lenca indigenous communities in Honduras have declared a state of “maximum alert,” pledging to resist hydro-electric and mineral development projects slated for their lands.
