Yearly Archives: 2015

LATIN AMERICA NEWS (InsightCrime.org) Recent cases involving the illegal appropriation and sale of lands in Peru and Brazil highlight how lucrative land trafficking can be in Latin America, and how it is often facilitated by official corruption. In a case that received a great deal of media attention, Colombian authorities...

TODAY NICARAGUA - Nicaraguan police has released all  six leaders of the campesino Land Defense Council after more than 150 hours of illegal detention. The campesino leaders, local organizers of a group that has vowed to defend landowners from forced expropriations for the Chinese canal project, all showed signs of...

COSTA RICA NEWS - The construction of the new hangar of the Cooperativa Autogestionaria de Servicios Aeroindustriales (Coopesa) is expected to begin later this year, paving the way for expansion of the Juan Santamaría (San José) international airport. With the plans and designs for the new Coopesa facilities approved last...