TEGUCIGALPA – Frequent visitorsto Honduras might be surprised to hear thatDunkin’ Donuts just opened its first storehere last year.Surprised because dozens of donutshops with...
GUATEMALA (ACAN-EFE) – Agroup of armed men with their faces coveredby ski masks held a surprise assemblySunday in an indigenous community in thewest of...
Tegucigalpa (ACAN-EFE) – A summitof Central American Presidents concludedhere last week with accords onarmed gangs in the region, commonlyknown as maras, and on the...
SAN SALVADOR – Salvadoranjudges are reacting negatively to policeauthorities’ latest innovation in their largelyineffective battle against soaring crime:charging perpetrators of especially horrificmurders with crimes...
PANAMA CITY (EFE) –Panamanian President Martín Torrijosannounced this week that he will ask theNational Assembly to suspend for 90 daysthe recently enacted amendments to...
TEGUCIGALPA (EFE) – At least29 Salvadorans and five Hondurans werekilled during heavy rains that pounded theCentral American nations last weekend,according to wire reports.In El...
THE European Union has approved itsnew Generalized Preference System(GPS), which grants Costa Rica and othercountries with “special developmentneeds” lower tariffs on exports, the ForeignTrade...
IN our article “Fuel Spill ThreatensThousands” in last week’s edition, wequoted Natalie Montiel, chief of waterquality and operations for the HerediaPublic Services Company (ESPH),...
THE Institute for Central AmericanDevelopment Studies (ICADS) and CostaRican student Freddy Villalobos wereboth honored Wednesday at the 2005Latin American-Iberian Summit in Honorof Educational Excellence,...
