Yearly Archives: 2015

Q24N (Prensa Latina) Over 50 people lost their lives in massacres perpetrated in November, an increase in violence that worries the authorities and the civil society in Honduras. According to the National Commissioner for Human Rights, Roberto Herrera, at least nine killings were registered with multiple victims in the said...

Q24N - In the mid 1900s, the most popular banana in the world - a sweet, creamy variety called Gros Michel grown in Latin America - all but disappeared from the planet. At the time, it was the only banana in the world that could be exported. But a fungus,...

Q24N - During the past two decades mysterious kidney failure has killed more than 20,000 farmers on Central America’s Pacific coast. The chronic kidney disease continues to afflict those in the region, most of whom either worked or still work on sugarcane or cotton plantations and are men between...