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."
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."
The Honduran government faces criticism from the OAS human rights agency for its failure to protect campesino activists and LGBT people.
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.
A marketing director for an opposition radio station is the latest victim in the crime wave against Honduran journalists. Police claim it was a "crime of passion."
A Honduran court has convicted three men in the murder of a well-known journalist, but impunity is still the rule for most killings of reporters and activists.
Honduran dockworkers carried their dispute with port management all the way to Oregon, where US dockworkers honored their picket line.
Indigenous supporters of a center-left mayoral candidate have occupied a town hall since last month to protest what they say were fraudulent election results.
After a five-year campaign, supporters of a campesino activist won him a chance for retrial—but he was convicted again in the new trial.
World Bank auditors say the bank violated ethical standards with a loan it gave a landowner in the conflictive Aguán Valley region of Honduras.
Violence against Honduran journalists and opposition activists continues. The police dismiss most cases as common crimes.
The wave of violence against LIBRE activists continue. Two have been killed, and one is fleeing the country because of threats to his life.
Two opposition parties charge fraud in the Nov. 24 election in Honduras. Did the vote restore democracy–or just aggravate the “social confrontation”?