Full Coverage: Central America

25.01.2005 In 1982, 444 indigenous men, women, and children were killed as they protested their forced relocation to make way for a World Bank-financed dam in Guatemala. A prominent indigenous leader and survivor of the "Rio Negro massacres" was arrested last week on charges stemming from a recent protest against the dam, and the World Bank has been asked to step in to stop the "muzzling" of community leaders.

21.01.2005 The New Year has arrived for human rights defenders with renewed attacks from clandestine groups and organised crime aiming to intimidate and sabotage human rights work. Attacks include death threats, attacks with firearms, false bomb alarms and "burglaries" in which mostly sensitive information was taken.

21.01.2005 Cold-blooded killings of journalists in Mexico in 2004 transformed the barely established Center for Journalism and Public Ethics (Cepet) into an activist organization defending the very lives of its constituents. With death at the doorstep, the group sought solidarity from representatives of the U.S. media in a border conference to fortify the free press. But only a week later another Mexican journalist was gunned down.

19.01.2005 The last Latin American country remaining in Iraq is now helping the U.S. out with soldiers in Haiti too--and hoping for a big payoff in return.

12.01.2005 El gobernador Fidel Herrera calculó que al menos 60 mil personas, entre ellas familias de pescadores, sufrirán las secuelas del desastre ecológico en el sur del estado por el derrame de miles de barriles de crudo al río Coatzacoalcos, al fracturarse un ducto propiedad de Pemex.

06.01.2005 Com diferentes atividades, a igreja de El Salvador iniciou as homenagens ao 25º aniversário de morte do bispo Oscar Romero, assassinado em 1980. Jornadas de reflexão e missas que vão acontecer no túmulo do monsenhor, que está no sótão da catedral metropolitana de São Salvador estão inclusas.