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Panama Politics · Panama

Panama will allow controversial mine to export already mined copper to fund maintenance

48% Center coverage: 50 sources

Panama will allow a controversial mine that was closed after months of protests to export more than 120,000 tons of already mined copper concentrate to pay the costs of maintaining the inactive mine site, government officials announced Friday. Opposition to the massive copper mine led to some of Panama’s most widespread protests in recent years before the country’s Supreme Court rejected a deal that allowed a Canadian company to operate it.See the Story

War Crimes · Guatemala

Guatemala court convicts 3 ex-paramilitaries of war crimes for rape and gives them 40-year sentences

46% Left coverage: 28 sources

More than four decades after Guatemalan soldiers and paramilitaries raped Indigenous women during their efforts to crush an insurgency in the country’s 36-year civil war, a court on Friday convicted three men of crimes against humanity in the case and sentenced them to 40 years in prison. Thirty-six women from the Maya Achi Indigenous group came forward in 2011 to seek justice for the abuses they suffered between 1981 and 1985. They came from Rabinal, a small town about 55 miles (88 kms) north of the capital.See the Story

Here’s What These Common—But Confusing!—Airport Signs and Symbols Mean

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

Over the years, I’ve transited through scores of airports around the world, from Scandinavia’s chic, minimalist terminals to the lively, sometimes chaotic hubs of Central America. But one thing they all have in common? Those pictogram-puzzle signs. While they seem simple enough to decipher and don’t require knowing a local language, they still manage to run the gamut from crystal clear to completely confounding. Racing through an airport to make…Central America · United States Read Article

Judge orders Trump administration to pursue return of improperly deported Guatemalan man

46% Center coverage: 103 sources

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to facilitate the return of a gay Guatemalan man who said he was deported to Mexico despite fearing he would be persecuted there, after officials acknowledged an error in his case. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston issued the order days after the Justice Department notified him that its claim that the man had expressly stated he was not afraid of being sent to Mexico was based on erroneous information.Immigration and Customs Enforcement · United States See the Story

UN Expert Says Guatemalan Prosecutor's Office Using Criminal Law to Pursue Opponents

55% Left coverage: 20 sources

A United Nations expert warned Friday at the conclusion of her two-week visit that Guatemala’s prosecutor’s office is increasingly using criminal law against former prosecutors, judges, defense attorneys, journalists and others. Margaret Satterthwaite, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, traveled the country meeting with judges, lawyers, lawmakers and others, including Guatemala’s chief prosecutor.Guatemala Politics · Guatemala See the Story

Luis Chaves: "In Costa Rica There Is a Discourse of Superiority that Is False" - La Opinión

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Costa Rican writer Luis Chaves, one of the most important poets in Latin America, talks to BBC Mundo about Costa and its relationship with Central AmericaCentral America · Costa Rica See the Story

Telekom Wins TV Rights to 2026 Soccer World Cup, Says Bild Newspaper

Coverage: 8 sources

Telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom has secured Germany's broadcasting rights for the men's soccer FIFA World Cup championship in 2026, Bild reported on Tuesday. MagentaTV, the company's television business, could then broadcast all 104 matches in the U.S., Mexico and Canada live, according to the report.Business See the Story

Costa Rica looks to El Salvador in announcing new prison and tough-on-crime reforms

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Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves took another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum security gang prison in El Salvador. With the announcement Friday during a visit to the Reforma prison, Chaves was channeling El Salvador President Nayib Bukele who he recognized last year with Costa Rica’s highest diplomatic honor for his decimation of that country’s gangs.Costa Rica Politics · Costa Rica See the Story

Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN

53% Center coverage: 34 sources

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guyana. And former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan said she learned after records of Britain’s Slave Compensation Commission were put online in 2013 that one of her ancestors, Sir John Trevelyan, owned sugar cane plantations in Grenada and about 1,000 enslaved people.United Nations · Jamaica See the Story

Legal group sues Costa Rica alleging the rights of 81 children deported by Trump were violated

44% Center coverage: 18 sources

A group of human rights lawyers is suing Costa Rica, alleging the Central American nation violated the rights of dozens of migrant children by detaining them in a rural camp for nearly two months after they were deported from the U.S. in February. The children, some as young as 2, are part of a group of hundreds of migrants from mostly Asian countries — Afghanistan, China, Russia and others — who were deported from the U.S. as part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to ramp up deportations.US Immigration · Costa Rica See the Story

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Panama will allow controversial mine to export already mined copper to fund maintenance

Guatemala court convicts 3 ex-paramilitaries of war crimes for rape and gives them 40-year sentences

Here’s What These Common—But Confusing!—Airport Signs and Symbols Mean

Judge orders Trump administration to pursue return of improperly deported Guatemalan man

UN Expert Says Guatemalan Prosecutor's Office Using Criminal Law to Pursue Opponents

Luis Chaves: "In Costa Rica There Is a Discourse of Superiority that Is False" - La Opinión

Telekom Wins TV Rights to 2026 Soccer World Cup, Says Bild Newspaper

Costa Rica looks to El Salvador in announcing new prison and tough-on-crime reforms

Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN

Legal group sues Costa Rica alleging the rights of 81 children deported by Trump were violated

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