Full Coverage: Central America

24.02.2006 One of the themes of the work of photographer Carlos Reyes-Manzo is the difficulties faced by women around the world, reports Rachel Crews. And the difficulties don’t get much grimmer than in Ciudad Juarez and Guatemala City, where hundreds of women have been kidnapped, raped and murdered.

22.02.2006 Nine skilled information and communication technologies (ICT) trainers from five different women's media organisations met in Mexico City in February of 2006. They came together to learn about a medium they never imagined they would one day have access to: video.

21.02.2006 ICTs are generating more than $2 billion dollars annually for Costa Rica, and the industry is one of the fastest growing in the country.Yet, women continue to constitute a minority in the IT professional sector and their participation seems to be decreasing.

20.02.2006 MEXICO CITY, Feb 17 (IPS) - Activists in Mexico are upset over a report by a special prosecutor's office on the killings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez, which they say buries many of the key facts and arguments relating to the murders.

17.02.2006 Since 1993 hundreds of young women from Juárez, a large U.S.-Mexico border city, have been abducted and murdered, and Mexican authorities have yet to apprehend those responsible for the crimes. Reporter Carlos Reyes-Manzo traveled to the city to document the images and words of this haunting tragedy.

15.02.2006 Costa Rica is a small Central American country of four million people that - unlike its neighbors El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua during their bloody civil wars - has never attracted much attention in the United States, except as a destination for tourists and retirees. But last Sunday's election there should serve as another wake-up call for Washington.

13.02.2006 CARACAS, Feb 13 (OneWorld) - American family farmers are rallying support for a plan aimed at uprooting U.S. agricultural subsidies that they say are lavished upon agribusiness at the expense of smaller producers and consumers at home and abroad.

08.02.2006 For a decade thousands of women have been abducted, raped, tortured and killed in Guatemala, and the authorities have failed to bring those responsible to justice. Carlos Reyes-Manzo’s black and white photo exhibition
on the murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and in Guatemala City shows in London, 16 February-5 March. Help stop violence against women.

07.02.2006 MEXICO CITY, Feb 7 (IPS) - The most dangerous place in Latin America to work as a journalist is northern Mexico, along the U.S. border, where drug traffickers threaten, kidnap and even murder reporters with impunity, according to the Inter American Press Association (IAPA).

06.02.2006 A Guatemalan high court has struck down laws criminalising expressions deemed offensive to public officials as unconstitutional and constituting "an attack on freedom of expression and the right to be informed".

04.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 4 (OneWorld) - Water, water everywhere and we are duped into buying it bottled.

03.02.2006 Mexico has launched an ambitious plan to drastically cut fuel emissions and improve air quality, the environment secretary said.