Central American Politics
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 00:00
Human rights advocates have asked for the repeal of Law 74 which protects police from prosecution
Monday, December 9, 2013 - 00:00
Crime rates have undergone a particularly significant decline with murders, rapes, robberies, and burglaries all down between January and the end of October 2013.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 00:00
It looks like the Constitutional Court in Guatemala has opened the door to a ruling that would prevent the re-prosecution of former dictator and one-time convicted genocidaire, Efrain Rios Montt.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 00:00
Garcia was a student union leader who went missing in 1984 after being seen in police custody.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 00:00
Approximately 10,000 US-based Salvadorans will be eligible to vote in 2014. The candidates want money and political support but they aren't expecting the votes of Salvadorans in the US to matter.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 00:00
It will now be up to Ivan Velasquez Gomez to make the most of the remaining two years of CICIG's mandate.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 00:00
This might be Menendez recognizing that working through the region's existing governments is futile. However, the private sectors in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras are just as much the problem as are the governments in each country
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 00:00
Declassified documents indicate that the US wasn't as involved in the Guatemalan genocide in the early 1980s as much as many people think. Reagan's public statements were probably some of the most damaging things that we did.
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 00:00
Guatemala improved enough on last year's scoring to be eligible for the threshold grant. As I mentioned last week, though, I'm not sure that Guatemala has seen much improvement in the last six months. If anything, conditions have worsened
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 00:00
2014 is going to be pretty exciting in Central America with El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama each holding a presidential election