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Costa Rica signs anti-torture law

President Laura Chinchilla signed a bill into law Tuesday establishing a mechanism to implement the United Nations' Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture.

Guatemalan president spars with US over Chixoy Dam reparations

GUATEMALA CITY – In January, the U.S. government suspended military aid to Guatemala after the Central American country failed to deliver on $154.5 million in reparations to survivors of a massacre over a hydroelectric dam built in the 1980s.

Guatemala’s sugar industry rakes in profits thanks to high productivity, low wages

Christopher Columbus first brought sugar to the Americas in the 15th century. Since then it has transformed the political and social composition of the region. Here’s a look at one Central American country’s modern industry.

Anti-abortion parade brings 200,000 Catholics to San José

In staging yet another protest, Costa Rica's Catholic Church aims to be heard during campaign season.

Doctors complicit in torture at CIA, military prisons: study

The Defense Department and the CIA demanded that the health care personnel "collaborate in intelligence gathering and security practices in a way that inflicted severe harm on detainees in U.S. custody."

Costa Rican woman denied therapeutic abortion petitions Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Doctors at a public hospital in Costa Rica refused to perform a therapeutic abortion last November, saying the woman's life was not at risk.

Social conservatives march against abortion, gay rights

Thousands of Evangelical Christians, Catholics and social conservatives in Costa Rica mobilized against perceived threats to the "traditional" family and pushed a constitutional amendment to define marriage between a man and woman.

Guatemalans continue speaking out on atrocities during Ríos Montt era

The conviction on genocide charges of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt may have been overturned, but now the world knows the brutality committed by his military regime in the 1980s.

Guatemala’s Maya outraged at genocide ruling annulment

Nebaj mayor: The annulment "mocks the Ixil people."

Guatemala court strikes down ex-dictator’s genocide conviction

Ruling is unclear as to whether the case will be retried in the near future.

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