NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from June 2006

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from June 2006

CUBA SEES VINDICATION IN ELECTION TO NEW UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL.
June 1, 2006... A new UN Human Rights Council has been created and its membership elected. Of the 44 new members of the council, eight are from Latin America and two of those from the Central America-Caribbean region. The two are Guatemala (see other...

GUATEMALAN ELECTION TO UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL STIRS INTERNAL DEBATE.
June 1, 2006... Guatemala was one of two countries in the Central America-Caribbean region to be elected to the newly formed Human Rights Council of the UN. The other was Cuba (see other article, this edition of NotiCen). The election was based on geographic...

NICARAGUAN ELECTION PITS COMPETING HEMISPHERIC VISIONS; LEFT WIDENS ITS EMBRACE.
June 8, 2006... Gran Unidad Nicaragua Triunfa. Under that banner, Daniel Ortega has vastly broadened the platform he hopes will return him to the presidency. If successful, the restructuring of the Frente Sandinista para la Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) could...

GASOLINE REFINERY SET FOR CENTRAL AMERICA; PRESIDENTS DECLINE TO PICK A SITE.
June 8, 2006... Panama and Guatemala are in contention for the site of the most expensive project ever undertaken in Central America. Ten heads of state, representing the isthmus plus Mexico, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic, met in La Romana, the...

COMMUNITY RADIO STRUGGLES FOR LEGITIMACY IN GUATEMALA.
June 15, 2006... The Guatemalan government is again coming down hard on community radio, or, as officials like to call it, pirate radio. The practice of hunting down and destroying tiny jury-rigged stations was once a function of the national security state....

EL SALVADOR: A DISAPPOINTING FIRST TWO YEARS FOR PRESIDENT ANTONIO SACA.
June 15, 2006... El Salvador's President Antonio Saca stepped up to the podium in the legislature early in June to give an account of his first two years in office. Saca has seen a decline in his popularity and a general impression that he has little to show...

EPISTEMICIDE: UNDER CAFTA, INDIGENOUS HERITAGE BECOMES FIRST-WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
June 22, 2006... Indigenous communities and environmentalists call it biopiracy; international pharmaceutical companies and academic researchers call it bioprospecting. Whatever one chooses to call it, the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has...

CUBA CRITICIZED FOR LIMITING CITIZEN'S INTERNET ACCESS, BUT US PREVENTS HOOKUP.
June 22, 2006... In accordance with its blockade policy, the US has blocked Cuba's access to a fiber-optic cable that would permit wider, faster, and broader access to the Internet. Use of the cable would also be far cheaper for the island and provide better...