Mediators who helped arrange El Salvador gang truce will work on similar deal in Honduras

Canada.com - Monday 17th June, 2013

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Two Salvadorans who mediated in a gang truce in their country that cut the homicide rate by at least 50 per cent say they will help Honduras gangs do the same. Monsignor Fabio Colindres and former guerrilla fighter Raul Mijango say they will work with gang leaders and the Organization of American States to secure a truce with the government of Honduras, which is often ...

Blight sweeping Central American coffee

West Australian - Monday 17th June, 2013

Across Central America, even as rains arrive, many coffee plantations contain only spindly, nearly defoliated bushes, the result of a blight known as coffee leaf rust whose devastation, so far, has yet to affect the prices of premium highland coffee that baristas serve around the developed world.But while Americans have yet to feel its effects, the blight may soon prove to be as disastrous as ...

Nicaragua Canal is More Viable Than Ever

Prensa Latina - Monday 17th June, 2013

Managua, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) The modern Nicaragua emerged with the dream of a canal through its territory and never that dream was so viable like at the present, said today the Nicaraguan historian Arturo Cruz. In the opinion of Cruz, who is a scholar at the Central American Institute of Business Management, in the beginning of this millennium Nicaragua Canal represents a very important issue ...

Honduras defender Figueroa joins Hull City from Wigan

SBS - Monday 17th June, 2013

Wigan Athletic's Maynor Figueroa celebrates scoring against Everton during their English FA Cup soccer match in Liverpool, northern England, March 9, 2013. REUTERS/Nigel ...

Nicaragua ranked as the seventh safest country in Latin America

eTN - Monday 17th June, 2013

Nicaragua was ranked as the seventh safest country in Latin America and is one of the countries that significantly improved its position in the western hemisphere in the 2013 Global Peace Index (GPI). GPI evaluates over 162 countries, and includes indicators such as the levels of military expenditure, its relations with neighboring countries, number of homicides, level of organized conflict and ...

Nicaragua approves China-backed Atlantic-to-Pacific canal

wsws.org - Monday 17th June, 2013

The Nicaraguan National Assembly enacted legislation June 13 granting a 50-year concession to a Hong Kong company to plan and build a trans-isthmian shipping channel from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea that would rival the Panama Canal.The bill, passed by a 60-28 vote, authorizes a joint venture between the Nicaraguan government and HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. (HKND). ...

Honduras party led by ousted leader Zelaya picks his wife to be its presidential candidate

General Sources - Sunday 16th June, 2013

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- A Honduran political party led by ousted President Manuel Zelaya has chosen his wife to be its presidential candidate in elections next November. A convention held by the Free Party on Sunday nominated Xiomara Castro, who opinion polls say is one of the most popular Hondurans touted as presidential candidates. Castro told the convention that if she wins, her first ...