GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) –Guatemala has sent 17 athletes to thismonth’s 2004 Summer Games in Athens,Greece, and is optimistic about its chancesof taking home the...
PETÉN, GUATEMALA — TheMaya Biosphere, the largest continuoustropical forest north of the Amazon, isunder attack.Illegal logging, fires, drug trafficking,and the lack of state resources...
TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) – The governmentof Honduran President RicardoMaduro this week announced plans toestablish new judicial proceedings thatwill feature “faceless” judges, prosecutorsand witnesses, to protect...
MANAGUA – Down but not despondent, theSecretary General of the Organization of AmericanStates (OAS) has promised to return to Nicaragua totake another crack at...
MANAGUA – If Nicaragua is unable to remain in thegood graces of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), thecountry will risk losing foreign-investment confidence,according to...
MANAGUA – With the objective ofoffering better attention to investors andthe public in general, the NicaraguanTourism Institute (INTUR) last weekopened its long-anticipated Center forPublic...
MANAGUA (EFE) – PresidentEnrique Bolaños has pledged Nicaragua toan international campaign to eradicatechild labor in the mining sector by the year2015, even though the...
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) – AGuatemalan mayor in the western municipalityof Génova Costa Cuca was killedby unidentified assailants Monday morning,according to police.Mayor Marciano Pérez, 54,...
MANAGUA (AFP) – Exasperatedafter having his car broken into on countlessoccasions in the capital, Nicaraguanfruit vendor Ismael Solís has employed acreative new method of...
RESIDENTS of the traditionallypeaceful mountaintop community ofMonteverde, in north-central Costa Rica,remain immersed in an ongoing water rightsstruggle over a controversial irrigationproject.At the heart of...
