Preliminary hearing in Costa Rica organ trafficking case pushed to December after assassination of defense attorney
The preliminary hearing in the case of four doctors formerly employed by the public Calderon Guardia Hospital who were charged in 2013 in an illicit scheme to traffic in human…
The ‘Guantanamo Bay of Panama’ raises human rights concerns
The remote island prison dubbed the Guantanamo Bay of Panama houses the country's most dangerous prisoners, but concerns are mounting over harsh conditions and human rights violations occurring behind the…
UN warns of immigration ‘crisis’ as women flee Central America
The U.N.'s top refugee official warned Western Hemisphere governments to prepare for a new surge of illegal immigrant women fleeing Central America and parts of Mexico, where they are being…
New members of UN human rights council criticized
A number of countries criticized by rights groups for serious human rights abuses against their citizens were elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, weeks…
New president of Guatemala wants to track teachers with GPS devices; give poor kids smartphones
Basking in the glory of a landslide in Guatemala's presidential election, a former comedian with no government experience has some unorthodox policy plans: he will tag teachers with GPS trackers…
US man, possibly wanted for murder had four children living in dungeon-like conditions in Costa Rica
Three children aged four, six and nine years of age, as well as a three-month-old baby are now in the custody of child protective services in Costa Rica after having…
President Solis is now by far the least popular president in Central America, according to Gallup survey
Costa Rica president Luis Guillermo Solis is by far the least popular president in Central America after the ouster of former Guatemala president Otto Perez Molina, according to the latest…
Jailed former president of Guatemala blames Joe Biden for his ouster
Guatemala's jailed former president, Otto Perez, says he regrets bowing to U.S. pressure to extend the work of an anti-corruption unit that then toppled him from power and that it…
