NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from January 2006

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from January 2006

ANOTHER POSTPONEMENT: HAITI WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR A LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT.
January 5, 2006... Haitian elections have once again been postponed. In announcing this fourth postponement (see NotiCen, 2005-08-11, 2005-12-01), the interim government did not set the stage for further embarrassment by announcing new dates. The scuttled...

ONSET OF CENTRAL AMERICA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT DELAYED.
January 5, 2006... The Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) was to begin Jan. 1, 2006, the triumphant culmination of two years of negotiations and politicking. But it did not begin, and it is uncertain when it will begin. US Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)...

CUBA SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH BOLIVIA; THIRD LEG OF REVOLUTIONARY TRIANGLE IS IN PLACE.
January 12, 2006... Reports of the failure of Che Guevara's 1966 attempt to revolutionize Bolivia may have been premature. The recent visit of Bolivia's President-elect Evo Morales to Cuba resulted in an agreement between the two nations that links them in the...

OUTGOING HONDURAN PRESIDENT LEAVES ANOTHER PRISON MASSACRE FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT AND CIVIL SOCIETY TO DEAL WITH.
January 12, 2006... A penitentiary shootout between rival gangs left 13 dead and 30 wounded in Honduras on Jan. 6. The mayhem came about a month after an announcement that Honduras and El Salvador had achieved advances in the treatment of imprisoned gang members...

COSTA RICA STUDY PEGS GLOBAL WARMING TO AMPHIBIAN EXTINCTIONS.
January 19, 2006... First noticed in 1990, amphibians in Costa Rica are disappearing at an accelerating rate. It was the decline of the country's trademark golden frog that first made news, but further study showed that the Monteverde harlequin frog, Atelopus,...

GUATEMALANS: HOW THEY SEE THEMSELVES AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.
January 19, 2006... Guatemalans have a dismal view of themselves (see NotiCen, 2005-09-22), their government, and the political system, says a recent poll by the largest national newspaper Prensa Libre and the firm Vox Latina. At the same time, there is a...

CUBA SAYS U.S. IS SEEKING TO BREAK RELATIONS AND HEIGHTEN AGGRESSIONS.
January 26, 2006... Cuba, in the person of President Fidel Castro, has looked upon recent US diplomatic behavior on and toward the island and sees in it a strategy to force a rupture in relations. High on the list of provocations is an illuminated electronic sign...

EX-PRESIDENT OSCAR ARIAS HEADED FOR ANOTHER TERM IN COSTA RICA.
January 26, 2006... Costa Rica will elect a new president on Feb. 5, and indications are that former President Oscar Arias (1986-1990) of the Partido Liberacion Nacional (PLN) could win with a sufficient margin to end the contest in the first round. There is no...

VIOLENT DEATHS BREAK RECORDS IN GUATEMALA AS CITIZENS FIGHT CRIME WITH CRIME.
January 26, 2006... Guatemala had a record-breaking year in 2005. At 5,330, the number of violent deaths was the highest since the end of the civil war in 1996. In the first 20 days of 2006, 304 people were known to have been murdered. Many of these deaths are...