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Mediators who helped arrange El Salvador gang truce will work on similar deal in Honduras
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Two Salvadorans who mediated in a gang truce in their country that cut the homicide rate by at least 50 per cent say they will help Honduras gangs do the same. Monsignor Fabio Colindres and former guerrilla fighter Raul Mijango say they will work with gang leaders and the Organization of American States to secure a truce with the government of Honduras, which is often ...
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Blight sweeping Central American coffee
Across Central America, even as rains arrive, many coffee plantations contain only spindly, nearly defoliated bushes, the result of a blight known as coffee leaf rust whose devastation, so far, has yet to affect the prices of premium highland coffee that baristas serve around the developed world.But while Americans have yet to feel its effects, the blight may soon prove to be as disastrous as ...
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Mexican politicians going to the dogs er cats
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Fed up with politicians they call "rats," a group of friends in the eastern Mexican city of Xalapa have put forward their ideal candidate for mayor: a cat named ...
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New construction in tourism industry – signs of recovery or misplaced optimism?
The whole of Central America has been affected by the global downturn. One of the industries effected most has been tourism, and while many construction and expansion projects were planned during the heady days of 2007 and early 2008, the region may now be facing a huge oversupply problem in terms of hotel accommodation, although there are signs of light on the horizon.
In 2006, the Tourism Ministers of various countries in the region came together at San Ramon for a conference and told Central American news providers that the tourism industry for the region as whole had grown by an average of 11%, which account for, on average, 5% of the region’s GDP for that year, in addition, there was astounding growth in the number of European tourists travelling to Central America, a 147% increase in fact. Read more
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