Guatemalan activists and politicians warn of a breakdown in constitutional order following the government's rejection of a court ruling overturning the president's decision to ban an international anti-corruption commissioner from the country.

Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales’ vows to shut down an internationally backed anti-corruption panel have sparked a constitutional crisis and demonstrations across the country.

Thousands of indigenous Guatemalans blocked sections of the Pan-american highway on Monday, kicking off a week of marches, blockades and rallies to protest the government's decision to shut down an international anti-corruption commission in the country.

Indigenous authorities throughout Guatemala are united in their condemnation of the government’s actions against an international anti-corruption commission. They are calling for the commission to stay and hope it will branch out to investigate corruption networks of officials, military personnel and companies operating in Indigenous territories.

Tahoe Resources’ fiercely contested Escobal silver mine in Guatemala will remain idled for the time being. On Monday, the Guatemalan Constitutional Court upheld the suspension of the Nevada-based company’s mining licence, pending consultation with Indigenous Xinca residents of the surrounding area.

Human rights officials and activists have warned that the rule of law in Guatemala is under threat after a UN-backed special prosecutor was banned from re-entering the country – the latest in a series of clashes between the government and an international anti-corruption commission.

The trial of eight men charged with the murder of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres is right around the corner, but prosecutors may be heading to trial without important evidence. More than two dozen electronic devices seized in related raids as far back as 2016 were never subjected to analysis, according to an official response to Cáceres’s relatives from the Office of the Prosecutor for Crimes Against Life, a document that has not yet been made public.

It could be your morning coffee, your bananas, your sugar, or the palm oil found in approximately half of all packaged products at your grocery store, including breakfast cereals. Land and environmental defenders were killed in record numbers last year, and for the first time, agribusiness is tied to more killings than any other sector, according to a new report.

El proyecto hidroeléctrico Jilamito en el municipio de Arizona, departamento de Atlántida en Honduras, ha contado con una fuerte oposición. El asesinato del abogado Carlos Hernández y las presiones judiciales contra el alcalde Arnaldo Chacón y cuatro personas más preocupan en el país centroamericano.

Honduran officials are on trial for failing to consult Indigenous communities before authorizing the Agua Zarca dam, linked to Berta Cáceres murder. They are the first criminal trials of their kind in Honduras.

Hoy se cumple un año desde el asesinato de Carlos Maaz, un pescador Q’eqchi’ de 27 años de edad. La policía lo mató el 27 de mayo del 2017 en medio del violento desalojo de una protesta en El Estor, Izabal. A pesar de la criminalización de líderes de la Gremial de Pescadores Artesanales y periodistas, siguen exigiendo justicia.

One year after police shot and killed indigenous Maya Q'eqchi' fisherman Carlos Maaz during the eviction of a protest against mining pollution in Guatemala, no one has been brought to justice, but indigenous fishers' union leaders and local journalists face ongoing criminalization and threats.

State violence against community resistance to natural resource exploitation projects continues unabated in Honduras. The recent crackdown in Pajuiles to impose a fiercely contested hydroelectric dam project is just one of the latest incidents, but it provides a clear example of the involvement of US-trained and -supported special forces in repression against community activists.

Hasta la fecha son nueve personas que esperan desde la cárcel su juicio por el asesinato de Berta Cáceres. La mayoría tiene nexos o con la empresa o con las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras.

Trained in Honduras and in the United States by Green Berets from the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), the TIGRES receive substantial support from the U.S. State Department. And they have been active participants in government repression during the current political crisis in Honduras.

Around the country, Hondurans are demanding justice for the protesters and bystanders killed in the ongoing crackdown on opposition protests by the US-backed government of Honduras. Two months after general elections were marred by widespread reports of fraud, and one month after the US government stood by the contested results, repression and militarization continue unabated.

Nighttime road blockades have been springing up in neighborhoods around the Honduran capital as opposition alliance supporters continue to protest against election fraud.

Amid the ongoing electoral crisis in Honduras, rank-and-file police officers engaged in a brief work stoppage and claimed they would not crack down on protests. What's the backstory? And have they kept their word?

As Nicaragua's government doubles down on transnational gold extraction, the stage is set for grassroots resistance.

The crisis in Honduras is escalating. More than two weeks after general elections, the country is still without a president-elect. Nationwide marches, highway blockades, and neighborhood and community rallies continue to pop up around the country. As evidence of electoral fraud mounts, so does attention to the US role in the crisis.