No. 2011, January 2011
Index
- Amnesty International: Nicaragua failing to treat rape epidemic.
- Costa Rica congressional opposition alliance aims to take hold of leadership and draw up national problem-solving agenda.
- Costa Rica requests precautionary measures from International Court of Justice in dispute with Nicaragua.
- Costa Rican labor movement gears up for peaceful struggle against economic and tax policies.
- Costa Ricans feel cornered by crime and try to defend themselves.
- Cuba's upcoming Communist Congress marked by urgent economic adjustment and massive layoffs.
- Dominican Republic's apparel sector: workers laid of, unions busted, but beacon of light emerges.
- Drug cartels blamed for murder of folk singer Facundo Cabral.
- Eight rights activists killed last year in Guatemala.
- El Salvador wins key round in bout with foreign mining firms.
- El Salvador's peacetime killings set to surpass civil war casualty numbers.
- El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes earns high marks despite lingering economic and security problems.
- El Salvador's shift to the left a boon for women's rights.
- El Salvador's Supreme Court revisits 1989 Jesuit-massacre case.
- First Costa Rican president ever convicted on corruption charges gets sentence reduced and threatens to take case to human rights court.
- First couple file for divorce so Sandra Torres can run for president.
- From cop's statements in Canada to bishops' remarks in Costa Rica, SlutWalking takes to San Jose streets.
- Guatemala's presidential election goes to second round in November.
- Guatemalan former President Alfonso Portillo acquitted on corruption charges.
- Guatemalan presidential candidate Otto Perez Molina and the Ixil Triangle massacres.
- Jesuit massacre: El Salvador's Corte Suprema de Justicia shields accused soldiers from international prosecution.
- Legitimacy questions, 'supermajority to Mark Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's controversial third term.
- Mexico's most violent drug gang sows terror in Peten.
- Nicaragua keeps cautious eye on rising HIV numbers.
- Nicaragua: rosy growth numbers an added boost for President Daniel Ortega as election nears.
- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega gains momentum in push toward presidency.
- Opposition leader accused of human rights violations.
- Otto Perez Molina leads the polls ahead of Guatemala's presidential election.
- Panama City coastal thoroughfare threatens world heritage site.
- Panama government says it will not develop indigenous copper project after mine reform.
- Phone calls stir Costa Rica's political waters.
- President Daniel Ortega extends lead as Nicaragua's election nears.
- President Daniel Ortega primed for controversial sixth run at Nicaragua's presidency.
- Salvadoran leaders circle wagons as international courts probe civil war-era human rights abuses.
- Sandra Torres cannot run for office, says Guatemala's electoral authority.
- Sandra Torres, wife of Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom, seeks to lead official UNE party to second consecutive victory.
- Spanish journalist, human rights activist, and Martinelli critic expelled from Panama.
- Spontaneous, massive resistance movement against 2009 coup in Honduras gearing up to compete in elections.
- Still no solution in sight for El Salvador's puzzling crime problems.
- Thousands still homeless almost two years after earthquake.
- Tiny El Salvador plays big role in President Barack Obama's first Latin America trip.
- Two of Guatemala's top drug traffickers captured.
- Bloody foiled prison break in Costa Rica's top penitentiary reveals security flaws and cruel treatment of inmates.
- Climate change threatens Central America.
- Costa Rica and Nicaragua find grounds for cooperation and coordination in fighting organized crime.
- Costa Rica bets on stiffer border security as it waits for ICJ measures to start normalizing.
- Costa Rica decrees moratorium on oil exploitation for remainder of President Chinchilla's term.
- Costa Rica: cops and robbers or cops-robbers?
- Costa Rican lawyer twice arrested on drug charges gets help for clients from judge who released him.
- Cuba tries to revive communism with more efficient, less bureaucratic leaders.
- Cuba's LGBT community gains visibility and hopes for legalization of civil unions.
- Cuban exodus alert for Ecuador while illegal immigration to the U.S. decreases.
- Haiti: Duvalier's return overshadows election debacle.
- Haiti: new president expected to maintain 'business-as-usual'.
- Opposition infighting has Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega leading ahead of November election.
- Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli's Alianza por el Cambio falls apart.
- Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes shifts attention to stagnant economy.
- The bloods and crips: Belize's deadly gangs.
- A jubilant Dona Laura calls provisional ICJ measures Costa Rican victory in four-month-old feud with Nicaragua.
- Belizean gang suppression unit accused of human rights violations.
- Colombian police cooperation with Costa Rica praised by government and rejected by opposition.
- Cuba suffers one of most intense droughts in history.
- Family of murdered doctor seeks to stall Noriega's extradition to Panama.
- Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returns, human rights situation unchanged.
- Guatemalan farm laborers support accused drug trafficker Mauro Salomon Ramirez Barrios.
- Guatemalan women fight for right to political participation.
- HIV prevalence in Cuba remains low, but prejudice and stigmas remain.
- Honduran human rights camp says skyrocketing homicides part of state policy; government blames organized crime.
- Honduran president Porfirio Lobo reveals assassination plot but human rights activist says facts are unclear.
- Inquiry into alleged influence peddling in Costa Rican Institutions reaches Central American Financial Organization.
- Killings in Honduras out of control, and Fingers Point at Police and Army.
- Massive opposition group to 2009 coup evolves into political organization.
- Mediation begun to get Honduras back on track and eligible for readmission to OAS.
- Nicaraguan juvenile-justice system comes under scrutiny.
- Panama Press Freedom questioned as journalists face official and anonymous criticism.
- Panama's Caja de Seguro Social hospital hit by superbug.
- Politically motivated crimes presage violent election as mayoral candidate in eastern Guatemala is latest victim.
- Table set with problems has become nightmare of crises undermining the first Costa Rican government headed by a woman.
- Victims of 1940s syphilis-inoculation experiment in Guatemala fight for compensation.
- WikiLeaks highlight Panama government's 'dark side' and canal-expansion concerns.
- Charges against military leaders of 2009 coup in Honduras Vanish; human rights organization ponders international legal action.
- Honduras' truth and reconciliation commission report blames both sides for coup; human rights activist fears perpetuation of impunity.