CENTRAL AMERICA

‘The agreement with the USA was the final straw that pushed people out onto the streets’

Lina Vega Abad | PANAMA

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘The regime seeks to consolidate absolute control by eliminating all external oversight’

Wisthon Noguera | NICARAGUA

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘The regime counts on the disappearance of civil society, but people will always look for ways to organise themselves’

Amaru Ruiz | NICARAGUA

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘With the new financial law the Ortega-Murillo regime consolidates its absolute control’

Juan Diego Barberena | NICARAGUA

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘My father was arbitrarily arrested and convicted for denouncing government corruption’

Ramón Zamora | GUATEMALA

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘We are shifting from gang violence to state violence’

Laura Aguirre | EL SALVADOR

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘Violence ensures that extractive activities can continue unchallenged’

Carlos Leonel George | HONDURAS

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘Civic space is closed and prospects for change are limited, if not non-existent’

ACDD | NICARAGUA

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘Corrupt elites see defenders of justice as a threat to their interests and try to silence them’

Virginia Laparra | GUATEMALA

CENTRAL AMERICA

‘We demand environmental justice in the face of corrupt interests insensitive to local needs’

Juana Esquivel | HONDURAS

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

CENTRAL AMERICA