NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from July 2005

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from July 2005

ENORMOUS WARTIME ARCHIVE DISCOVERED IN GUATEMALA.
July 21, 2005... The Procuraduria de Derechos Humanos de Guatemala (PDH) has discovered thousands of documents pertaining to human rights abuses committed at the height of the country's 36-year civil war that ended with the signing of peace accords in December...

ORTEGA PROPOSES EARLY ELECTIONS TO END NICARAGUA STALEMATE.
July 21, 2005... Nicaragua's governmental functions continue to be stalled, seemingly impervious to attempts by national and international parties to blow the logjam. The Sandinista-controlled legislature has had the presidency in check for many months,...

COSTA RICA'S ENVIRONMENTAL REPUTATION FOUNDERS ON FARCICAL FISHERIES LAW.
July 21, 2005... Costa Rica has created a new loophole for shark finning, the ostensibly illegal practice of cutting the valuable dorsal fins from certain species of the animals and discarding the rest of the carcass. The fins are used in Asian cookery and for...

OFFICIALS IN HAITI SCRAMBLE TO MEET ELECTION DATES AS LAVALAS PARTICIPATION AND VOTER TURNOUT REMAIN IN DOUBT.
July 28, 2005... An influential group in Haiti, driven by the need to establish some semblance of government in the ravaged country, appears to have hit upon a concept that might be called democratization-without-representation. The seven-member Council of...

INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK FAULTS GUATEMALA AND ITSELF FOR A DECADE OF FAILED PROJECTS.
July 28, 2005... The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has recently published its report Country Program Evaluation Guatemala 1993-2003. Although it covers a decade now two years gone, the publication date is April 2005. Scathing in its critique of the...