No. 2010, January 2010
Index
- BELIZE: COASTLINE FACES IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE.
- COSTA RICA: CLASH DURING POLICE OPERATION ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUS TRIGGERS CONCERN, OUTRAGE.
- COSTA RICA: GOVERNMENT ASKS CITIZENS WHAT COUNTRY'S SECURITY SHOULD LOOK LIKE.
- Costa Rica: judiciary and executive pass back and forth decision on open-pit mining project.
- COSTA RICA: LEATHERBACK NESTING GROUND AT RISK.
- COSTA RICA: NEW GOVERNMENT SETS GOALS TO SHAPE UP SECURITY.
- COSTA RICA: PRESIDENT-ELECT LAURA CHINCHILLA BETS ON INTELLIGENT APPROACH TO SECURITY ISSUES.
- COSTA RICA: RISE OF RIGHT CONSOLIDATES AS ELECTIONS NEAR.
- Costa Rica: teddy bears and military medical personnel not enough to shield U.S. warship on humanitarian mission from criticism.
- COSTA RICA: WIDE VICTORY MARGIN GIVES FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT CLEAR MANDATE.
- CUBA: OPPOSITION WOMEN, BLOGGERS INTENSIFY DEMANDS THROUGH INTERNET.
- CUBA: PRESIDENT RAUL CASTRO CONFRONTS INTERNAL OPPOSITION AND U.S. IN DEATH OF POLITICAL PRISONER.
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: NEW CONSTITUTION HAS MANY CRITICS.
- EL SALVADOR TURNS WARY EYE TOWARD UP-RIVER GUATEMALA GOLD MINE.
- EL SALVADOR WRESTLES WITH PERSISTENT WATER WOES.
- EL SALVADOR: CHIPPING AWAY AT CHILD-LABOR NUMBERS.
- El Salvador: country wary of Arizona-style anti-immigration laws.
- EL SALVADOR: MAURICIO FUNES CHARTS INDEPENDENT COURSE DURING FIRST YEAR AS PRESIDENT.
- EL SALVADOR: PRESIDENT MAURICIO FUNES TO FIGHT CRIME WITH GUNS, PHONE TAPS, AND MORE POLICE.
- EL SALVADOR: TWO MORE ANTI-MINING ACTIVISTS SLAIN.
- EL SALVADOR: U.S. DEPORTS 20,000 SALVADORANS ANNUALLY.
- Guatemala: CICIG investigates extrajudicial executions under Berger administration.
- GUATEMALA: COMMISSION FINDS RODRIGO ROSENBERG ARRANGED HIS OWN KILLING.
- GUATEMALA: EX-PRESIDENT ARRESTED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES.
- GUATEMALA: FRANCISCO DALL'ANESE RUIZ IS NEW HEAD OF ANTI-IMPUNITY COMMISSION.
- GUATEMALA: HEAD OF UN ANTI-IMPUNITY COMMISSION RESIGNS.
- GUATEMALA: HURRICANE AGATHA EXPOSES NEED FOR GREATER DISASTER-PREVENTION INVESTMENT.
- GUATEMALA: IDENTIFICATION FORGERY RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT ELECTORAL FRAUD.
- GUATEMALA: LANDSLIDE IN CAPITAL SHANTYTOWN EXPOSES INADEQUATE PLANNING POLICIES.
- GUATEMALA: RISING DISCONTENT AGAINST ENERGY COMPANY UNION FENOSA.
- GUATEMALA: SIX IN TEN MURDERS COMMITTED BY HIRED ASSASSINS.
- GUATEMALA: WAVE OF MOB LYNCHINGS LEAVES 41 DEAD.
- HAITI-DOMINICAN RELATIONS IMPROVE FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKE.
- HAITI: AS AID TRICKLES IN, SURVIVORS STEP UP.
- HAITI: EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS FACE NEW TRIALS WITH FORCED EVICTIONS.
- HAITI: PROGRESSIVE CIVIL-SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS SHUT OUT OF RECONSTRUCTION PLANNING.
- HAITI: SELF-HELP THE BASIS OF VIABLE ALTERNATIVE.
- HONDURAS: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION AT ODDS REGARDING COUNTRY'S SITUATION ONE YEAR AFTER COUP.
- HONDURAS: GOVERNMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS COMMUNITY EACH APPOINT TRUTH COMMISSIONS TO PROBE COUP.
- HONDURAS: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS PERSIST IN NEW ADMINISTRATION.
- HONDURAS: PRESIDENT PORFIRIO "PEPE" LOBO'S COMPLEX UNDERTAKINGS.
- HONDURAS: RESISTANCE GROUP AIMS TO CHANGE COUNTRY.
- HONDURAS: SLOW PROGRESS IN PRESIDENT PORFIRIO LOBO'S EFFORTS TO GAIN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION.
- NICARAGUA HEADS INTO BREWING POLITICAL STORM.
- NICARAGUA: ENERGY-HUNGRY COUNTRY OPTS FOR LARGE-SCALE HYDRO DAM.
- NICARAGUA: FSLN LOOKS TO BREAK CONGRESSIONAL STALEMATE.
- NICARAGUA: GOVERNMENT FIRM ON ALL-OUT ABORTION BAN.
- NICARAGUA: LANDMINE ELIMINATION BRINGS RARE GLOBAL PRAISE.
- NICARAGUA: PRESIDENT DANIEL ORTEGA AND FORMER PRESIDENT ARNOLDO ALEMAN "DREAM" OF A 2011 SHOWDOWN.
- NICARAGUA: RECESSION AND JOB LOSS MARK "HORRIBLE YEAR".
- PANAMA: DRUG-FUELED VIOLENCE ON THE INCREASE.
- PANAMA: PRESIDENT RICARDO MARTINELLI ENACTS CONTROVERSIAL ENVIRONMENTAL, LABOR, POLICE LAWS.
- PANAMA: PRESIDENT RICARDO MARTINELLI FACES CRITICISM FROM BUSINESS ELITE FOR CONCENTRATION OF POWER.
- PANAMA: PRESIDENT RICARDO MARTINELLI MOVES HIS AGENDA FORWARD.
- PANAMA: PRESS FREEDOMS THREATENED.
- PRESIDENT LAURA CHINCHILLA BEGINS TERM WITH COMMITMENT TO SAFER, GREENER, MORE PROSPEROUS COSTA RICA.
- REGION: CENTRAL AMERICAN DROUGHTS THREATEN FOOD SECURITY.
- REGION: LIVING ON THE GUATEMALA-BELIZE BORDER.
- REGION: LOS ZETAS INCREASE PRESENCE IN CENTRAL AMERICA, SEEK TO DISPLACE LOCAL CARTELS.
- USA-CUBA: PRESIDENTS BARACK OBAMA AND RAÚL CASTRO CAUGHT IN HALF CENTURY OF CONFLICT.
- Belize: economic stagnation, unemployment blamed for worsening living conditions.
- Costa Rica and Nicaragua both claim willingness to talk, but dialog has yet to start.
- Haiti braces for more tragedy as cholera spreads.
- Haiti elections: badly flawed, unlikely to bring any positive change.
- Legitimacy concerns cloud upcoming Nicaraguan presidential election.
- Mudslides following heavy rains kill dozens in Guatemala.
- Nicaragua: banana workers denied Dole fruit damage settlement.
- Nicaraguan opposition weighs options while FSLN consolidates control.
- Panama advances toward major mining projects.
- President Laura Chinchilla faces obstacles in struggle against organized crime.
- Region: UN report shows inequality still scourge in Latin America.
- State of emergency declared for lead-polluted community.
- Verdict in forced-disappearance case sets precedent in fight against impunity.
- Costa Rica-Nicaragua showdown stresses love-hate relationship.
- Costa Rica: arrival of U.S. warships causes outrage in country with no army.
- Deadly blaze underscores crisis in El Salvador's prison system.
- Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli's agenda marches on unfazed by opposition.
- Recovering Cuban tourism industry waits for more U.S. visitors.
- Region: Havana, Caracas strengthen economic pragmatism in bilateral relations.
- "Sausage Law" backlash ends in protesters' deaths, international criticism.
- El salvador pursues "pandillas" with tough anti-gang law.
- Honduras' return to Organization of American States easier said than done.
- Human Rights Council makes 112 recommendations to Honduras, which government says it has fulfilled, human rights advocate says not.
- Increased deportations means less remittances for Central Americans.
- Organization of American states will audit Guatemala's electoral register.
- Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli reverses course on controversial legislation.