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Weekly Report - 03 September 2009 (WR-09-35)
GUATEMALA: Court delivers "historic" civil war conviction
This week a regional court found Felipe
Cusanero Coj, a former army collaborator, guilty of the “forced disappearances"
of six indigenous campesinos during Guatemala's bloody 36-year civil war and
sentenced him to 150 years in prison. The conviction is the first of its kind
and has been hailed by human rights activists as a significant step forward in
redressing the injustices committed by the army during the civil
war.
- Unasur verdict and re-election referendum go Uribe's way
- REGION: Rethinking regional drugs policy
- BOLIVIA: Late addition to electoral race fuels controversy
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Supreme court dismisses case against Palocci
- BRAZIL: Oil laws come under fire
- CHILE: Bachelet names new indigenous czar
- TRACKING TRENDS
- REGION: Freedom of expression or manipulative distortion?
- GUATEMALA: Court delivers "historic" civil war conviction
- REGION: China boosts trade ties in isthmus
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Calderón admits that more needs to be done
- MEXICO: Oil worries mount
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Struggle ensues over legitimacy of Honduran elections
- Quotes of the week