Full Coverage: Central America

30.04.2004 Fin de parcours pour Luis Posada Carriles ? Le vieux baroudeur de l’extrême droite cubaine (76ans) a été condamné mardi par la justice panaméenne à huit ans de prison pour avoir planifié en 2000 une tentative d’assassinat du dirigeant cubain Fidel Castro. Ce proche de la Fondation nationale cubano-américaine (CANF) de Miami -fugitif de la justice vénézuélienne pour un précédent attentat- avait été arrêté le 17 novembre 2000 en compagnie de cinq complices.

29.04.2004 A forte crise na produção de café na América Central afeta o equilíbrio ambiental, já que com o fim do cultivo em milhares de hectares diminui a geração de carbono e oxigênio, ao mesmo tempo em que propicia um aumento da erosão dos solos, afirmam especialistas. A queda dos preços internacionais do grão obrigou milhares de pequenos e médios produtores da Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras e Nicarágua a deixarem suas terras em busca de alternativas.
Em: Agência Envolverde

29.04.2004 The Bush Administration has announced it will begin trade negotiations with Panama today in the hopes of completing a bilateral "free trade agreement" (FTA). The negotiations represent the latest attempt to expand NAFTA further into Latin America. A Panama FTA would complement the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic that the Administration finished negotiating last year.

28.04.2004 Amid all the gloom about war, global warming, and the spread of HIV/AIDS comes a glimmer of hope in the news from two key UN agencies that the number of measles deaths declined by 30 percent worldwide between 1999 and 2002. The World Health Organisation and the UN Children Fund (UNICEF) also reported that Africa, which suffers the highest rate of measles infection in the world, cut deaths by 35 percent over the same three-year period.

27.04.2004 À la veille de l'audience au cours de laquelle la Cour interaméricaine des droits de l'homme statuera sur les exceptions préliminaires en rapport avec un cas de torture au Mexique, Amnesty International exhorte le gouvernement mexicain à collaborer à la procédure, et à honorer ainsi ses engagements, affirmés à plusieurs reprises, en matière de droits humains.

27.04.2004 After its defeat in the March 21 presidential elections, the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) is in turmoil over demands that the leadership resign after its poor performance in the elections.

24.04.2004 By recognizing the state’s role in the 1990 murder of anthropologist Myrna Mack, Guatemalan President Oscar Berger today took an important step in promoting accountability for past human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said.

22.04.2004 Films produced by young students from Burkina Faso, India, Israel, Mexico and Romania to promote peace will now be exhibited internationally and online.The perceptions of young minds on global issues like conflict and violence are reflected through these films.

21.04.2004 A Nicaraguan court in early March ordered Shell Chemical, Dole Food and Standard Fruit companies to pay a group of women US$82.9 million in fines in a lawsuit brought by campesinas made chronically ill by the use of the pesticide Nemagon on banana plantations in the 1970s.

21.04.2004 The new trade regime was greeted with hearty applause from a large number of beneficiaries who were not, actually, your average Central American. They were, instead, international banks, energy corporations, road construction firms, paper companies, advertising consultants, golf course designers and beachfront developers.

20.04.2004 Issues on promoting the use of radio and other ICTs in rural development will be explored at the Workshop on Radio, New ICTs and Rural Development in Quito, Ecuador from April 20 -23. Stakeholders will gather to discuss content, training and policy related issues for further action at this event, being organised by FAO and UNESCO among others.

16.04.2004 O chanceler mexicano Luis Ernesto Derbez está deixando claro que seu país quer voltar os olhos ao Mercosul. Depois de dez anos de livre comércio com os Estados Unidos, o México planeja integrar-se plenamente ao Mercosul, o bloco econômico formado pela Argentina, Brasil, Paraguai e Uruguai.

13.04.2004 A total of fifty-nine children and youth under the age of 23 have been murdered in Honduran detention centers between the period of May 2002 and March 2004. Of these, 41 victims were extra-judicially executed (by agents of the State).

12.04.2004 O deserto de Ciudad Juárez, no Norte do México, tornou-se uma imensidão maldita para um milhão e meio de habitantes desta região nos últimos onze anos. Desde 1993 começaram a aparecer em suas areias os cadáveres decompostos de mulheres jovens, barbaramente torturadas, mutiladas e violadas. A média de desaparecimento é de uma mulher por semana.

05.04.2004 Tune in to watch Hands On: Cash - No Questions, 10 & 11 April, part of TVE’s award-winning Earth Report series broadcast on BBC World. This episode goes to Brazil, USA, Mexico, UK, Poland and India to report on innovative microcredit schemes that are putting profits from green enterprise back into the community.

02.04.2004 Les autorités mexicaines doivent cesser de fermer les yeux sur les dossiers de Isidro Baldenegro López et de Domingo Rivas Carrillo, a déclaré Amnesty International ce vendredi 26 mars 2004, jour anniversaire de la mise arbitraire en détention des deux hommes. Les autorités fédérales peuvent et doivent agir immédiatement pour mettre un terme aux poursuites infondées engagées à leur encontre et veiller à ce qu'ils soient remis en liberté immédiatement.

02.04.2004 The 1st of March, 2004, local Mexican television news programs screened a video where a young and handsome senator from the Mexican Green Ecologist Party (PVEM) was seen and heard making a deal in exchange for two million dollars. In September, 2000, in Peru, another video was leaked. It showed Mr. Montesinos, advisor to the National Intelligence Service, delivering money to a congressman to change sides.

02.04.2004 The study for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation said gene transfers could damage Mexico's vast storehouse of native corn, whose wild ancestral genes might one day be needed to help commercial crops overcome diseases or adverse conditions.

01.04.2004 Guatemala's peace agreements of 1996 put an end to the country's 36-year-old civil war, but didn't mark the start of justice being done. Many of those who lost someone among the estimated 200,000 victims of the military violence - the majority came from the country's original Indian population - still live in fear.

01.04.2004 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 31 (OneWorld) -- Two U.S. human rights groups have hailed Wednesday's World Court ruling that the United States violated the rights of 61 Mexicans on death row to receive help from Mexican consular officials, as guaranteed by a 1963 international treaty.