GUATEMALA: JUSTICE FOR RIOS MONTT’S VICTIMS?
In January, Former President Efraín Ríos Montt was finally indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Tropas de élite guatemaltecas combatirán a los carteles en la frontera...
Spanish daily El País reports that Guatemala has decided to deploy elite troops in the border with Mexico, to fight drug cartels. In Spanish
Guatemala: student protests continue
Despite police brutality, students continue protests over planned privatisation of education.
GUATEMALA: INDIGENOUS CHALLENGE
An indigenous group has gone to court to challenge the government's legal right to change the mining law without consulting the indigenous population.The Center for International Environmental Law and MiningWatchCanada report.
GUATEMALA: HISTORIC PUBLIC HEARING
Indigenous communities express their support for the legal challenge to the government's right to change the mining law. Beth Geglia reports.
Guatemala: dawn of a new banana age?
Signs that workers and the large transnational banana companies are working together to improve conditions in the industry
Colombia: Poverty falls but the gaps widen
Between 2002 and 2010 poverty fell in Colombia, though less than in other Latin American countries. But the gaps, especially between the main urban centres and rural areas, widened.
CENTRAL AMERICA: CANADIAN MINING COMPANIES RAMPANT
An interactive map of major mine projects by Environmental Campaign for Central America (ENCA)
GUATEMALA: INVESTORS PROFIT WHILE COMMUNITIES SUFFER
A careful analysis of projects praised in a UK government funded report on investment opportunities.
MINING: WOMEN TAKE THE STAND
Women from Guatemala, Venezuela and Peru speak out about the affects of mining on their communities.