Mike Gatehouse
The reach of the Mexican drug-trafficking group is extending south. It will take more than an iron fist policy to stop it.
As the US increases it's military presence in Central America Grandin questions the wider policy involved.
As events in North Africa a UN official encourages Cuba to consider democratic reforms and the problem of structural racial discrimintation on the island.
The following article, published by El Pais from Spain, reports on a seminar organised by the Carlos III University in Madrid between 15-16 February, at which a group of specialists discussed the problem of gender violence in Latin America.
President Colom initiated Martial Law in Alta Verapaz in December in order to control the drugs violence between cartels in the area.
The US is trying to institute a Plan Central America which is expected to be announded this week. This will seek to address security issues across the region as the war on drugs continues.
As fighting between rival drug cartels intensifies Rosenburg looks as the social dislocation which is occuring for the people who live in the worst hit areas.
As many, many people are still living in tents following last year's earthquake Ronal Thelusmond discusses the need for a clear social housing policy to allow everyone to work together in securing a future for Haiti's people.
In Peru, water is in short supply because of the need to export agricultural produce. And the problem is getting worse.
Despite the earthquake and extreme physical poverty Haiti's youth express themselves richly through art, promoting human rights, aided by organisation APROSIFA.