FORMER Costa Rican President Miguel AngelRodríguez (1998-2002) began his job Wednesday as secretarygeneral of the Organization of American States(OAS) by announcing a restructuring of...
NEITHER the possibility of offending centuries ofCatholic tradition nor the disapproval of the Chinese governmenthas stopped Costa Rica’s political and church leadersfrom embracing a...
TEGUCIGALPA– Honduran authoritiesannounced this week they will investigatethe extra-judicial killings of more than50 alleged gang members in 2004 – a waveof violence that rights...
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) – Atotal of 84 officers of Guatemala’sNational Civil Police were fired last weekfor their involvement in organized crime,according to Minister of...
PANAMA CITY (AFP) – Panama’santi-corruption prosecutor, Cecilia López,announced Tuesday that Panama is filingcharges of money laundering against formerNicaraguan President ArnoldoAlemán (1997-2002), his former taxdirector...
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) –Hundreds of Guatemalan campesinos,who last week occupied one of the country’smost important power plants forthree days, abandoned the plant lastThursday following...
TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) – HonduranPresident Ricardo Maduro this week saidhe considers the Central AmericanParliament (Parlacen) “unnecessary,” andasked Congress to suspend Honduran paymentsto the organization.“I am...
SAN CRISTÓBAL VERAPAZ,Guatemala – After a seven-hour occupationof the country’s main hydroelectricpower plant, a group of some 2,000campesinos on Tuesday night began negotiationswith the...
SAN SALVADOR (AFP) – The legalguidance office of the Archbishop of SanSalvador on Tuesday demanded thereopening of the 1980 murder case ofslain Archbishop Oscar...
