Full Coverage: Central America

31.10.2006 MEXICO CITY, Oct 30 (IPS) - The Mexican government justified on Monday the violent storming by federal police of social protests in the capital of the southern state of Oaxaca, saying it had restored peace and order. But the evidence tells a different story.

30.10.2006 Brad Will was shot in the torso Friday while documenting a paramilitary assault on the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca. The Independent Media Center remembered Will as "part of this movement of independent journalists who go where the corporate media do not or stay long after they are gone."

28.10.2006 Today the town of Texcoco is making history yet again, but this time as the site of an historic encounter of representatives from three of the Mexican left's most significant political movements: The Other Campaign of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the Peoples' Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) from San Salvador Atenco, and the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO)

21.10.2006 October 2 marked another anniversary of the 1968 massacre in Tlatelolco Square, a former prehispanic marketplace in Mexico City. Students and others were gunned down by soldiers and government agents

21.10.2006 The application of Mayan law in indigenous communities in the northwestern department of Solola, has led to a heated debate on customary law — or usos y costumbres — meaning the institutions and practices of indigenous people, human rights and the official judicial system

13.10.2006 A recent conference in Mexico aimed to raise the profile of renewable energy initiatives to demonstrate their economic and environmental potential to policy makers and pursestring-pullers.

06.10.2006 Recente informe da organização Anistia Internacional revela novos indícios de que as autoridades do Estado do México não só não têm investigado seriamente as acusações das mulheres de San Salvador Atenco

06.10.2006 President Óscar Arias Sánchez ended his first 100 days in office with almost nothing to show for it. With an attitude which has been called both authoritarian and arrogant, he launched an electoral campaign centered around the idea that Costa Rica was a drifting ship in urgent need of a captain to get it back on course.

05.10.2006 The U.S. government on Monday announced a major debt-for-nature swap that will provide more than $24 million for conservation efforts in Guatemala.

04.10.2006 SAN SALVADOR, Oct 4 (IPS) - El Salvador is studying the Kyoto Protocol carefully, not because it has to cut its emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, but because this international agreement opens a way to earn profits and encourages investment for development.

04.10.2006 When residents in Santa Eduviges entered their second month without running water, everyone knew something had to be done. A meeting was called. Community members expressed outrage that the water company's $7 per month bill always arrived on time, but taps barely flowed.

02.10.2006 NEW YORK, Oct 2 (OneWorld) - Environmental groups are concerned about a new plan to build a 700-mile long fence along the border with Mexico.