NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs articles from September 2006

NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs archives from September 2006

GUATEMALA REPLAYS WARTIME ATTACKS ON INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES TO APPEASE U.S.
September 7, 2006... A timorous Guatemala has once again sacrificed the well-being of its poor indigenous populations to the interests of the US and its penchant for punishing countries that do not toe the mark on issues of drugs and money. The Guatemalan...

COSTA RICA DENIES INDIGENOUS RIGHT TO CONSULT ON CAFTA, AND ONLY PRETENDS TO CONSULT ON AUTONOMY.
September 7, 2006... Legislators in favor of ratification and implementation of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) have turned away indigenous communities seeking participation in making the trade decision. In turning away indigenous claims, the...

JUSTICE COMPROMISED IN FLORIDA: JOURNALISTIC ETHICS AND THE CUBAN FIVE.
September 14, 2006... In July, Cuban President Fidel Castro visited Bolivia. At a press conference there, a reporter, Manuel Cao, asked Castro why Cuba was not letting one of its political dissidents leave the country. Castro asked who was paying him. Exactly how...

REGIONAL PRODUCERS SIDELINED AS BIG NATIONS DOMINATE, AND SINK, DOHA ROUND.
September 14, 2006... A July 24 World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, whose aim was to restart the so-called Doha Round, ended in failure, smashing the hopes of less-developed countries of making some headway against the developed countries...

CUBA REVIVES NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT WITH A SUCCESSFUL SUMMIT.
September 21, 2006... Cuba hosted the 14th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Havana Sept. 11-16. The NAM is a grouping of nations, now 118-strong, set up in 1961 by Third World nations that wanted to avoid being crushed during the Cold War either by Washington...

GOVERNMENT BLAMED FOR MOUNTING MAYHEM AS UN RAPPORTEUR SEES LITTLE HOPE FOR A SECURE GUATEMALA.
September 21, 2006... Guatemala has racked up an impressive 3,500 homicides so far this year, and that is just according to official figures. The average rate of 16 per day surpasses that of the country's darkest days of the internal war, which, between 1960 and...

EVO MORALES VISITS GUATEMALA, COULD CHANGE INDIGENOUS POLITICAL FUTURE.
September 28, 2006... Bolivia's President Evo Morales briefly visited Guatemala Sept. 12, but not to hobnob with his homologue Oscar Berger; they met only in passing. Morales was in the country at the invitation of his wider constituency, the nation's and the...

NARROW MAJORITY SUPPORT CAFTA BUT MOST KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT, SAYS POLL.
September 28, 2006... The most recent poll on the future of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) explodes the myth, said the newspaper La Nacion, that Costa Rica is divided on whether to ratify the treaty. According to the poll, 51% of respondents said...