NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from May 2006

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from May 2006

THE ISTHMUS REACTS, SUPPORTING US DEMONSTRATIONS FOR HUMANE MIGRANT REFORMS.
May 4, 2006... For much of the world, May Day, May 1, is International Labor Day, but it is generally ignored by a US citizenry unmindful that it is a tradition born in Chicago in commemoration of the Haymarket Riots of 1886. May 1, 2006, however, saw a...

MIGRANT NICARAGUAN WORKERS FACE EVICTION IN COSTA RICA.
May 4, 2006... With no coherent plan to control its influx of foreign workers, Costa Rica has returned to wholesale evictions as a way to deal with undocumented populations (see NotiCen, 2004-02-12). Mostly Nicaraguan, these workers, like those in other...

LAKE NICARAGUA IN DECLINE, BESIEGED BY CORRUPTION, PRIVATIZATION, AND POLITICS.
May 11, 2006... Lake Nicaragua is the largest and most important source of fresh water in Central America, the second-largest lake in all of Latin America. It has the potential to bring potable water to many of the isthmus's 32 million people, half of whom...

COSTA RICA INAUGURATES ARIAS; SECOND PRESIDENCY FACES STIFF OPPOSITION.
May 11, 2006... On May 8, Oscar Arias was sworn in as President of Costa Rica, returning to the office he held 20 years ago, from 1986 to 1990. He is a different man than he was then, and Costa Rica is a different country. Back then, the overarching problem...

PREVAL INAUGURATED; HAITIAN-BORN CANADIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL PROMISES CLOSER TIES.
May 18, 2006... Haiti inaugurated its first elected president since the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (1991, 1994-1996, 2001-2004) in February 2004. Rene Preval officially took on the job May 14, calling for peace among his countrymen and...

HARSH REVIEWS FOR HONDURAS PRESIDENT'S FIRST 100 DAYS.
May 18, 2006... Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Rosales has passed his hundred-days-in-office mark, signaling the end of a honeymoon characterized by critical silence all around. With the gags off, a picture emerges of a president who still has not hit his...

GUATEMALAN ADOPTION MILLS CONTINUE TO CHURN OUT CHILDREN FOR INTERNATIONAL MARKET AS LEGISLATION STALLS.
May 25, 2006... Among the chief causes of Guatemala's legendary widespread violence is the recurring theme of child stealing. This past April saw the lynching of a man and a woman accused by an enraged mob of attempting to steal local children. Some 5,000...

COSTA RICA TUNA FARM RAISES HACKLES.
May 25, 2006... Costa Rica seems set to enter the business of tuna farming, a practice widely condemned among environmentalists. There is a plan afloat to build the world's first yellowfin tuna ranch at the mouth of the Golfo Dulce. The area is known for its...