Full Coverage: Central America

30.09.2004 Citizens and authorities of Rio Hondo, in eastern Guatemala, met on a sweltering August day to form an association to defend their water amidst a planned hydroelectric project on Colorado River, which flows down from the lush Sierra de las Minas Biosphere behind the town.

29.09.2004 Le Congrès mexicain doit saisir cette occasion historique d’inscrire les droits humains au cœur de la Constitution et du système judiciaire, a affirmé Rupert Knox, chercheur d’Amnesty International sur le Mexique.

29.09.2004 Ronald Raxcacó fue juzgado por el secuestro de un niño en ciudad de Guatemala y condenado a muerte el 14 de mayo de 1999. En su momento, la CIDH alegó que el Estado de Guatemala es responsable de violación a los derechos humanos en perjuicio de Raxcacó, por lo que le recomendó al Estado: adoptar medidas legislativas para garantizar que no se imponga la pena de muerte de manera obligatoria a ninguna persona en ese país.

29.09.2004 A web portal in Costa Rica has become an example of how ICT tools can improve business. Venezuelan exporters were recently shown how www.lacarretica.com could expand the range of goods offered for export by countries in Latin America.

27.09.2004 On the first birthday of the caracol, a trio of ski-masked representatives of the 14-member Junta de Buen Gobierno Altos de Chiapas, or Altos de Chiapas Good Government Committee, are squeezed together behind a tiny desk inside a small wooden house whose façade is draped with a mural depicting a giant ear of corn on which all the kernels are ski-masked Zapatistas.

27.09.2004 In rural Guatemala, poor mostly indigenous farmers scrape a living off the nation’s poorest soils while wealthy plantation owners reap the benefits of an agricultural system based on international exports and the exploitation of cheap labor. Guatemala has one of the most skewed land distribution patterns in the world, and the second-most inequitable in Latin America ; roughly 2% of the population owns 70% of all productive farmland.

22.09.2004

© ACCION International

Former finance ministers and heads of central banks in Latin America met in the U.S recently under the auspices of the Center for Global Development to discuss financial opportunities for small and medium sized enterprises in the region.

17.09.2004 Each day, hundreds of Central Americans cross the town of Tecun Uman on the border between Guatemala and Mexico in search of a better life in the United States and what they find is "the nightmare of the American Dream."

16.09.2004

10.09.2004 A passo lento, as maiores companhias da América Latina e do Caribe incorporam normas para medir e reduzir a emissão de gases que causam o efeito estufa, mas para as pequenas e médias empresas, que são a grande maioria, o tema apenas desponta no horizonte.
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10.09.2004 The government of Mexico will host the 2004 Youth Employment Summit in Veracruz from October 4-7. Highlights of the conference include the release of the State of YES Campaign Report 2004.

09.09.2004

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Half of 6,000 languages spoken in the world today are destined to become extinct in the next 100 years, forever losing the knowledge and unique cultural contributions of their speakers. But in Mexico, UNESCO and the International Literacy Institute are supporting the Native Literacy Center in its effort to preserve the Oaxaca language from extinction.

09.09.2004 Small scale coffee farmers in Guatemala are getting a life line from the U.S.-based organization, Heifer. Working with a cooperative in Guatemala, the organization is distributing an organic shade grown fair trade coffee called Heifer Hope Blend to support 25 million growers and their families.

08.09.2004 Malgré la création, il y a deux ans, d’une Unité spéciale chargée d’enquêter sur les morts violentes d’enfants, les tueurs d’enfants du Honduras continuent d’échapper à toutes poursuites pour meurtre, a déclaré Amnesty International ce lundi 6 septembre, alors que l’organisation relance sa campagne mondiale appelant le gouvernement du Honduras à mettre fin à l’impunité régnante.

08.09.2004 Despite the creation of the Special Unit for the Investigation of Violent Deaths of Children two years ago, the killers of children in Honduras continue to get away with murder, said Amnesty International, as it relaunched its world-wide campaign calling on the Honduran government to stop impunity.

07.09.2004 Amnesty International has announced that it is relaunching its global campaign to press the Honduran government to take stronger measures to stop the continued killing of street children, nearly 700 of whom have been murdered in the last 18 months.

07.09.2004

Co-operative coffee in Haiti © Cooperativa cafetera en Haití / Intermón Oxfam

The worldwide coffee crisis has had a devastating effect on Nicaraguans, with some farming families surviving on less than 50% of what they earned five years ago. Mercy Corps, a U.S.-based group is working with local organizations in Nicaragua to protect the livelihoods and preserve the traditions of families suffering from the coffee crisis.

07.09.2004 In Honduras nearly 700 children have been murdered or illegally executed in the past 18 months, reports Amnesty International.

06.09.2004 La disparition des sœurs Erlinda et Ernestina Serrano Cruz fera l’objet d’une audience publique de la Cour interaméricaine des droits de l’homme, le 7 septembre prochain. Ce sera la première fois que le gouvernement du Salvador sera appelé à comparaître devant cette instance.

03.09.2004 Costa Rica’s social security institute has often been held up as a model institution in developing nations for its efficiency and wide-spread coverage. This long-held image, however, has been undermined recently by a top-level corruption scandal.