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US Senators Propose Sanctions for Honduran President

They seek to block financial aid and ammunition sales to Honduran law enforcement over human rights violations and corruption.

President Ortega has dismissed hopes of COVID-19 vaccinations for Nicaragua arriving “soon”. In his first public appearance in forty days.

In Colombia, an inquiry by a special court revealed the Colombian Army carried out over 6,400 extrajudicial killings between 2002 and 2008.

“We are facing a crude attempt to launder a State crime against freedom of the press, expression, and association” said Carlos F. Chamorro.

In Ecuador, conservative banker Guillermo Lasso advanced to the runoff of the presidential election against leftist economist Andrés Arauz.

The member of the Nicaraguan Medical Unit has endured 14 months of police siege at his home and this is his third time attacked.

In Guatemala City, thousands took to the streets Thursday denouncing years of state violence against Indigenous communities.

Immigration told priest Fabian Mejia that he “had gotten involved in politics,” but the priests “were close to the people,” said Father Lemus

Bolivia’s Central Bank has returned a nearly $350 million loan from the International Monetary Fund. It was received af the 2019 coup.

Association spokespersons say their members are “of all political stripes”, and that their Assembly wasn’t about political matters.