Louisa Reynolds

Honduras’s Aborted Mission for Political Reform
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 06:27
A deadly combination of drug wars and gang violence have turned Honduras into the most violent country in the world outside a war zone. The institutions responsible for providing public security are largely ineffective and remain mired in corruption.
Are We Witnessing a Central American Spring?
Monday, June 29, 2015 - 06:25
Frustration over rampant corruption in Guatemala and Honduras may have finally lit the fuse in countries long accustomed to sleaze and scandal.
Guatemala’s Pérez Molina Could Face Impeachment
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:51
President Otto Pérez Molina’s future is in the hands of five congressmen after the Supreme Court gave the legislature the green light to decide whether he should be stripped of his prosecutorial immunity so that he can be tried for corruption charges.
26 Lawyers Have Been Murdered in Guatemala in the Past 3 Years
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 06:28
Francisco Palomo Tejada, an attorney for former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, is the latest in a number of high-profile legal professionals to be killed in Guatemala, a country with one of the highest violent crime rates in the world.
Resignation Rumors of Guatemala's Pérez Molina Grow after Fourth Week of Protests
Monday, May 18, 2015 - 12:45
In a country deeply divided by class and race, upper- and middle-class students from the country’s top three private universities joined students from the state-funded University of San Carlos, religious groups, gay rights organizations and ordinary citizens, in a peaceful demonstration against government corruption.
Dos Erres: Vivir para ser testigos del horror (I
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 00:00
Hoy, el parcelamiento de Dos Erres, en Las Cruces, Peten, donde ocurrio una de las masacres mas atroces del conflicto armado interno, es una llanura inmensa.
"Ningun ejercito en la Guerra Fria habia hecho lo que hizo el ejercito de Guatemala"
Monday, March 12, 2012 - 00:00
Manolo Vela hizo una tesis doctoral sobre la masacre de Dos Erres para explicarle a la sociedad como el ejercito llego a ver en los rostros de 201 civiles indefensos a un enemigo del Estado que debia ser aniquilado.
Dan de baja a militares detenidos en El Salvador
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 00:00
Los tenientes Juan Jose Pineda Vasquez y Genaro Pineda Rojas, detenidos en el aeropuerto de San Salvador el viernes pasado cuando intentaban abordar un vuelo con destino a Nueva York con 148 capsulas de heroina, seran expulsados.