NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from July 2007

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from July 2007

THOUSANDS DYING FROM CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY IN NICARAGUA; AGROCHEMICALS SUSPECTED BUT NOT PROVEN.
July 12, 2007... About 160 km northwest of Managua lies the town of Chichigalpa, where some 2,000 people suffer from chronic renal insufficiency (CRI). The disease is eventually fatal. This is sugarcane country. The CRI sufferers are current and former...

CONSTITUTIONAL WAY CLEARED FOR CAFTA IN COSTA RICA; REFERENDUM IS NEXT.
July 12, 2007... The question of the constitutionality of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in Costa Rica is settled (see NotiCen, 2007-04-19). The way is now clear for an Oct. 7 referendum on whether Costa Rica will become the sixth and final...

SECURITY, MIGRATION, IMPUNITY SUBJECTS OF U.S. OFFICIAL VISIT TO GUATEMALA.
July 19, 2007... In anticipation of the visit of Thomas Shannon, US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Central American authorities planned to ask the US for aid for a regional-security strategy. Guatemala's Government Minister Adela...

CUBA AND MEXICO TAKE DECISIVE STEPS TOWARD REPAIRING DIPLOMATIC DAMAGE.
July 19, 2007... Cuba and Mexico have taken decisive steps toward normalizing diplomatic relations, which were severely damaged during the administration of former Mexican President Vicente Fox (2000-2006). From July 4-6, the two countries held the IX...

DEFINING PROTEST AS TERRORISM, EL SALVADOR RETURNING TO REPRESSIVE PAST.
July 26, 2007... El Salvador's downward spiral of violence and repression took another turn on July 2, when 12 members of popular organizations and a journalist were arrested and accused of "acts of terrorism" for taking part in demonstrations against the...

SET FOR RELEASE IN US, NORIEGA IS WANTED BUT NOT DESIRED IN PANAMA.
July 26, 2007... Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno is scheduled for release Sept. 9 from the US federal prison cell in Miami he has occupied since 1989, but no one seems to know where he is going. The only certainty is that he is not going free. The Panamanian...