CENTRAL AMERICA

Panama: after protests, will the government keep its promises?

Soaring costs have further fuelled anger at corruption and poor public services

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

CENTRAL AMERICA

Nicaragua’s crackdown: a beleaguered regime clutching at straws?

The government’s desperate attempt to eliminate all dissent reveals a weakness that democratic allies should exploit

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘The regime seeks to annihilate all forms of autonomous citizen organisation’

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘Many laws remain that keep LGBTQI+ people as second-class citizens’

CENTRAL AMERICA

El Salvador: ‘war on gangs’ accelerates slide into authoritarianism

Fundamental rights under attack, with 38,000 arrests so far

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘We must address the roots of the conflict: the handing over of natural resources’

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

CENTRAL AMERICA

Costa Rica at the polls: voting or gambling?

Apathy and fragmentation yield unexpected results

CENTRAL AMERICA

Guatemala: anti-rights movement shows its teeth

Attempt to enact regressive anti-gender law defeated – for the time being

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘Anti-rights groups seek to maintain the privileges of some at the expense of the rights of others’

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘Patriarchal justice persecutes, tortures and abuses women’

CENTRAL AMERICA