Full Coverage: Central America

30.04.2006 MEXICO CITY, Apr 30 (IPS) - In video rental stores in Mexico, demand has been high these days for "A Day Without a Mexican", a movie that helped inspire the nationwide demonstrations and a boycott to be held May 1, International Labour Day, by immigrant groups in the United States.

28.04.2006 Mexicans have fought long and hard to bring democracy to their country. That's why the spectacle of the current presidential elections is particularly lamentable.

27.04.2006 In Nicaragua, the US government continues to flex its muscles to achieve an electoral defeat of Daniel Ortega in the November presidential elections. Ortega, president during the Sandinista revolution in the 1980s, is running for president for the fourth time since his first defeat in 1990.

26.04.2006

18.04.2006 Costa Rica, dubbed the "Switzerland of Central America" for its high living standards, is becoming less Swiss and more Central American every day, reports María Flórez-Estrada.
* OneWorld UK Guide to Costa Rica

13.04.2006 Researchers predict that by the end of this century, climate change could have cut tropical rainfall by 25 per cent in Central America and the Caribbean.

07.04.2006 Every June 30, the Guatemalan military parades down the streets of Guatemala City in full pomp and splendor to commemorate “Army Day.” The parade celebrates the Army’s role in society and is devoid of any acknowledgement of the atrocities

06.04.2006 A federal judge in Miami has ordered Colonel Juan Lopéz Grijalba, one-time leader of the infamous death squad Battalion 316, to pay $47 million in compensation to torture survivors and relatives of those murdered by the Honduran military in the 1980s.

03.04.2006 against a large banner backdrop boasting a picture of the government Commission on Disappeared Children’s first reencounter, amidst cries of “The president should be here” from family members of the disappeared, Chancellor of the Republic of El Salvador Francisco Laínez publicly expressed regret to the Serrano Cruz family on behalf of the Salvadoran government, but failed to explicitly ask them for forgiveness.