No. 2015, January 2015
Index
- Constitutional court gives president Otto Perez Molina's impeachment green light.
- Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez responds to calls for resignation with calls for dialogue.
- Addressing opposition-led Congress, Costa Rican president stresses need for dialogue and building democratic culture.
- Calls for greater regulation after cave-ins kill artisanal miners in Nicaragua.
- CELAC leaders agree to attack causes of poverty; Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega surprises summit.
- Central American leaders discuss alliance for prosperity plan during summit of the Americas.
- Chinese developer breaks ground on controversial Nicaragua canal project.
- Comedian Jimmy Morales wins sweeping victory in Guatemalan elections.
- Concerns increase in Cuba because of rising temperatures, drought, other effects of climate change.
- Conflict between rival gangs, police produces war-like casualty numbers in El Salvador.
- Cornered by military-police repression in El Salvador, Mareros flee to neighboring Central American countries.
- Costa Rica links immigration to development, focuses on protecting immigrant rights.
- Costa Rica's uphill battle for a solution to the Cuban migrant crisis.
- Could a trial finally be in the works for El Salvador's Jesuits-massacre case?
- Date set for general elections in Haiti; voter turnout remains in doubt.
- Dean Barrow wins third consecutive term in Belize general elections.
- Despite opposition from Honduran communities, all is set for ZEDEs following second Corte Suprema ruling.
- Despite violence and irregularities, Haitian parliamentary elections seen as strengthening democracy.
- Dominican Republic approves reelection in constitutional reform.
- Economic readjustments end egalitarianism and increase class differences in Cuba.
- El Salvador pardons woman sentenced to 30 years for abortion-related offense.
- First wave of Haitian deportees leaves Dominican republic.
- FMLN loses ground in El Salvador's botched legislative and city elections.
- Former Honduran President Manual Zelaya says coup staged to hand country to foreigners.
- Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega apologizes for human rights violations.
- Government blames gangs for latest spate of violence.
- Government unveils anti-crime strategy as El Salvador's homicide rate soars.
- Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina finally gives in to widespread calls for resignation.
- Guatemalan court sentences former police chief for assault on Spanish Embassy.
- Guatemalan Vice President's top aide involved in customs bribery scandal.
- Indignados seek support from pope; OAS commends president Juan Orlando Hernandez.
- Lack of parliamentary and municipal elections leads to demonstrations in Haiti; Prime Minister resigns.
- Land conflict takes deadly turn in Northeastern Nicaragua.
- Martyred archbishop Oscar Romero beatified in El Salvador.
- More delays for Nicaragua's US$50-billion canal project.
- Negotiations on Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam reach consensus.
- New cases of police violence put pressure on Nicaragua's leadership.
- Nicaragua looks to Russia in bid to add military muscle.
- Nicaraguan miners square off against police, Canadian gold producer.
- Nine months of lowered tensions and new relationships with U.S. curb Cuba's official propaganda.
- Opponents of Nicaraguan canal project demand greater transparency.
- Outcome of Salvadoran municipal, legislative elections still unclear.
- Rights group investigating Salvadoran war crimes sues CIA, suffers break-in.
- Salvadoran government nixes Guatemala-style anti-impunity commission.
- Sexual minorities left out of Nicaragua's new family code'.
- Special U.S. military task force prepares to land in Honduras, critics say to secure U.S. interests.
- U.S. government clears Nicaragua of "property-waiver" requirement.
- Coffee between Costa Rica's attorney general and a vice minister turns into political storm.
- Conflicts involving mining projects persist in Dominican Republic.
- Corruption scandals blow up in Honduran President Orlando Hernandez's pet security forces.
- Costa Rica to consider declaring street harassment a crime.
- Dominican Republic progress mixed on transparency and participation.
- FIFA scandal highlights Caribbean's political culture of corruption.
- Fired Honduran judges question effect of negative human rights court ruling on government.
- New murder milestones for El Salvador as gang conflict rages on.
- Nicaragua jails army doctor who criticized police crackdown on canal protestors.
- Presidential Decree could reinstate in vitro fertilization in Costa Rica.
- Supreme Court judge resigns amid corruption allegations.
- Three members of powerful Honduras family charged with money laundering.
- Top Costa Rican Judicial Cop's proposal against motorcycle assailants outrages bikers.
- Afro-Cubans reaffirm demands more strongly in times of economic change on the island.
- Belizean government accused of disregarding indigenous property rights.
- Belizean police accused of human rights violations.
- Costa Rica gears up to host largest summit in its history.
- Costa Rica gets National Health Policy moving, aiming to strengthen other development areas.
- Costa Rica launches strategy against money laundering and terrorism financing.
- Cubans expect better technology, increased telecommunication services with support from U.S.
- Dominican Republic commemorates 50th anniversary of U.S. invasion and demands official apology.
- Dominican Republic economy improves but country sinks further into debt.
- Dominican Republic faces water shortage.
- El Salvador's leading parties spar as ex-president Francisco Flores' corruption trial looms.
- Fallout continues as anti-corruption authority probes Honduran Social Security Megascandal.
- Farmers and entrepreneurs bet on huge profits in new era of U.S. and Cuban relations.
- Former president Ricardo Martinelli faces corruption inquiry.
- Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina gives CICIG extension green light.
- Haitian immigration crisis reaches new heights.
- Honduran government welcomes OAS anti-corruption team; popular movement skeptical.
- Honduran Ley Picapiedra puts prisoners to work, isolates dangerous inmates.
- In atmosphere of uncertainty, with no Parliament, Haitian President Michel Martelly installs new cabinet.
- Judge orders former Salvadoran President Francisco Flores to stand trial.
- Leading opposition party in Guatemala tainted by money-laundering scandal.
- New stage of relations between Washington and Havana triggers expectations of Cuban people.
- Panamanian court suspends Manuel Noriega's trial for labor unionist's disappearance.
- Petroleum exploration project could threaten Belizean Barrier Reef.
- Security Minister says Costa Rica has time to save itself from organized-crime onslaught.
- Thousands of candidates will vie for posts in Haiti's long-awaited elections.
- Transparency concerns regarding election of comptroller general.
- U.S. and Dominican Republic sign new extradition treaty.
- Uncertainty about the future of the Cuban adjustment act fuels exodus to the U.S.
- Unprecedented political crisis leads to surprise result in Guatemala's first round of elections.
- With political wars over, central American violence takes new forms in region in urgent need for peace.
- Caribbean officials ponder regional response to seaweed influx.