NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from August 2004

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from August 2004

OFFICIAL IMMUNITY CURTAILED IN HONDURAS, ALMOST.
August 5, 2004... In an "unprecedented" act, the Congreso Nacional (CN) of Honduras has removed the constitutional immunity that for 46 years has shielded as many as 20,000 public officials from legal responsibility for their acts. "The decision was adopted for...

COOPERATION AND PROGRESS ON TROPICAL DISEASE IN PANAMA.
August 5, 2004... Panama has seen some recent advances in confronting tropical disease, even as malaria flares out of control in spots. The advances are mostly in research and dependent on international cooperation, but they also result from public-awareness...

COURT METES OUT JUSTICE TO JOURNALIST IN COSTA RICA, BUT MEDIA PROBLEMS RIFE IN REGION.
August 12, 2004... The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has vindicated a Costa Rican journalist in a case that may only have cooled the tip of a melting iceberg. In 1999, La Nacion reporter Mauricio Herrera published four articles that relied on...

DOMINICANS RISK DEATH FLEEING ECONOMIC CRISIS.
August 12, 2004... Its economy on the rocks, the Dominican Republic is now a major contributor to the hoards of boat people adrift in the Caribbean, rivaling its island mate, Haiti. Dominicans are dying out there in impressive numbers. They are fleeing their...

JIHADISTS THREATEN EL SALVADOR OVER TROOPS IN IRAQ.
August 19, 2004... Unique among countries of the region having sent troops to Iraq in response to the US struggle to mount a coalition, El Salvador renewed its commitment to the project with plans to send another 380 soldiers into the fray. Nicaragua,...

CUBA: INVASION TALK IS IN THE AIR.
August 19, 2004... While official Washington rejects Cuban claims that a US invasion is imminent, Cuba's uneasiness seems soundly based. For one thing, there is President George W. Bush's bellicose Cuba policy, and for another, the central role the administration...

AL-QAEDA AND U.S. REMILITARIZING THE REGION.
August 26, 2004... Honduran authorities have declared a national terror alert saying that the country has received threatening information from alleged al-Qaeda-connected groups. The country thus became the second in the region to experience this problem after...

GUATEMALANS PAY MORE AS COURT DEALS BLOW TO GENERICS.
August 26, 2004... Recent decisions in Guatemala and the region will do much to ensure that the poor and the sick will stay that way if the intervening variable is access to medicines. The most recent of these decisions was a legal one: the Corte de...