NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from December 2002

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from December 2002

PROGRESSIVES MAKE PROGRESS ON GENDER ISSUES AT FORO DE SAO PAULO IN GUATEMALA.
December 12, 2002... On Dec. 2-5, Antigua, Guatemala, hosted the organized left from Latin America and beyond. Representatives of left parties met at the XI Foro de Sao Paulo to advance an anti-imperialist agenda and try to make some progress on a model of...

CUBAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS CRITICIZE IMPRISONMENT OF FIVE CUBANS IN U.S. ON CHARGES OF ESPIONAGE.
December 12, 2002... Over the past year, five Cubans and one US senior intelligence analyst, Ana Belen Montes, have received stiff US prison sentences for passing along information to the Cuban Government about armed plots against the island nation originating in...

REGIONAL PRESIDENTS UNIFY AGAINST GUATEMALA IN BID FOR TRADE.
December 19, 2002... With the curtain about to fall on a year that is now officially the worst, economically, in decades for Latin America, Central American presidents took center stage in San Jose, Costa Rica, to perform the finale, the XXII Cumbre de Jefes de...

GUATEMALA: PRESIDENT ALFONSO PORTILLO REPLACES FOREIGN MINISTER TO FEND OFF U.S.
December 19, 2002... Guatemala's Foreign Relations Minister Gabriel Orellana resigned his post on Dec. 12. He had held the job for three years. He said he quit for personal reasons, and Presidential Secretary General Luis Mijangos told the news media that...