El Salvador court delays ruling on abortion case while woman’s life hangs in the balance

General Sources - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

After more than a month of delays, El Salvador’s Supreme Court has announced that it will decide whether or not a critically ill woman may receive a lifesaving abortion within the next two weeks. The 22-year-old woman, identified only as Beatriz, pleaded with the justices to spare her life last week, telling the court: ';This baby inside me cannot survive. I am ill. I want to ...

El Salvador president meets pope amid Romero hopes - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois Missouri News Sports

General Sources - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini). El Salvador's ambassador to the Holy See Manuel Lopez poses next to a brochure of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero at the end of an interview with the Associated Press, in the embassy's office, in Rome, Tuesday, May 21, ...

Honduras Three Farmers Killed During Land Eviction

Argentina Independent - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Share/Bookmark In the north of Honduras, in the community of San Manuel Corts, three peasants were killed and two others wounded on Friday, when they tried to enter the lands that were expropriated last year by the Instituto Nacional Agrario (National Agrarian Institute). Valentn Caravantes, Celso Ruiz y Celedonio Avelar, who died at the scene, were members of the Farmers’ Movement of ...

IMF Executive Board Concludes 2013 Article IV Consultation with El Salvador

General Sources - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of Article IV consultations with member countries, of its surveillance of developments at the regional level, of post-program monitoring, and of ex post ...

OAS to Hold Workshop for Central America and the Dominican Republic on Participation and Access to Information for Sustainable Development in El Salvador

OAS - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

OAS to Hold Workshop for Central America and the Dominican Republic on Participation and Access to Information for Sustainable Development in El Salvador May 22, 2013 The Organization of American States (OAS) will hold, on Thursday, May 23, in San Salvador, the first Regional Workshop on "Mechanisms of Participation and Access to Information for Sustainable Development" for the ...

Guatemalas highest court on Monday overturned a genocide conviction against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and reset his trial back to when a dispute broke out a month ago over who should hear the case.

MSNBC - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Guatemalan former de facto president (1982-1983) and retired general, Jose Efrain Rios Montt,during a hearing in court in Guatemala City on Jan. 21, ...

Guatemala’s Rios Montt faces new trial

IOL - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt wears headphones as he listens to the verdict in his genocide trial in Guatemala City. File photo: ...

Guatemala trial of Rios Montt has likely collapsed - lawyers

The Star - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt has likely collapsed after the country's top court struck down his conviction for genocide, defence and prosecution lawyers said on ...

Guatemala full of questions after genocide conviction annulled

General Sources - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The annulment of the genocide conviction of Guatemalan military dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt leaves in question the type of retrial he might ...

Trial of Ex-Dictator of Guatemala May Have to Restart

New York Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

the genocide verdict against a former dictator, Gen. Efran Ros Montt, lawyers on both sides of the case said Tuesday that his entire trial would probably have to be ...

Court Throws Out Genocide Ruling Against Former Guatemala Dictator

ThinkProgress - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

thrown out , as the country’s high court ordered a former dictator’s case on charges of genocide return to a lower court. Gen. Efran Ros Montt was just less than two weeks ago convicted of committing genocide against his own people during his time in power. According to the charges against him, Rios Montt was aware of the slaughter of at least 1,771 Ixil Mayans during the ...

Genocide Denial in Guatemala

Infowars Ireland - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

May 21, 2013 Guatemala's Constitutional Court has overturned the Ros Montt guilty verdict of May 10th, setting the legal proceedings back to April 19th - after the evidence was presented but before Ros Montt was declared guilty. The 3 to 2 decision relies on a technicality brought into play when Ros Montt's lawyers walked out of the court leaving him temporarily without ...

Guatemala ruling could keep ex-leader from prison

Sign on San Diego - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

FILE - In this Friday, May 10, 2013 file photo, Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt wears headphones as he listens to the verdict in his genocide trial in Guatemala City. Guatemala's top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's and ordered his trial to resume. Constitutional Court secretary Martin Guzman says the trial ...

AES supplies energy at Central Americas and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices

Dominican Today - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour of ...

Former Guatemala dictator found guilty of genocide

MSNBC - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt attends the last session of his genocide trial at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City on May 10, ...