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- Correction: Honduras-Death Squads story
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — In a story May 13 about suspects disappearing or dying after being in the custody of the Honduran National Police, The Associated Press misquoted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield as suggesting that the Honduran armed forces have engaged in vigilantism. In fact, Brownfield was speaking of the danger of communities carrying out vigilantism.
- Costa Rican president in jet scandal
Revelations that Costa Rica's president used a jet belonging to a Colombian with alleged links to drug trafficking have led to three resignations.
- Dredge contract awarded to handle bigger ships at Miami's port
By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - The United States Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $180 million contract to dredge Miami's harbor to an Illinois-based company on Thursday, part of a plan to deepen the port channel to handle larger ships coming through the expanded Panama Canal in 2015. The port hopes its short distance from the canal, as well as $2 billion of planned infrastructure upgrades, will make Miami a more attractive choice for global shippers looking to distribute goods to the U.S. market. ...
- How to Get Google Fiber—Without Google
Blair Levin was sitting in a Costa Rica hotel bar in 2011 when an idea struck. Google was moving ahead with its plan to roll out free, high-speed Internet access in Kansas City, Kansas—the result of a competition that drew in over 1,000 applications from cities nationwide. The demand for Web connectivity clearly outstripped even Google’s gargantuan capabilities. What if, instead of waiting for Mountain View or for the telecom companies to catch up, these cities started building their own next-generation fiberoptic Internet networks themselves?
- Costa Rica spokesman resigns amid Chinchilla flight scandal
 By Isabella Cota SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rica's communications chief resigned on Wednesday amid a scandal engulfing President Laura Chinchilla, saying he failed to properly screen a man who arranged for her to use a private jet and is under suspicion of using a false identity. The attorney general's office is now investigating flights Chinchilla made to Peru and to Caracas for the funeral of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Costa Rica has no presidential plane so Chinchilla usually flies on commercial airlines or uses aircraft provided by other governments when making state visits. ...
- El Salvador court hears arguments in abortion case
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's Supreme Court heard opening arguments Wednesday in a landmark abortion case in which a woman suffering from kidney failure and lupus has not been allowed to terminate a pregnancy in which the fetus is given no chance of surviving.
- Probe sought in pyramid destruction
The deputy prime minister of Belize is calling for full prosecution of those responsible for destroying a 2,300-year-old Mayan pyramid to turn it into rock for roads.
- What could finally topple Iran's regime? Earthquakes.
In the past half-century, earthquakes have directly contributed to the overthrow of at least two authoritarian regimes in Nicaragua and Iran. By exposing government corruption and incompetency, earthquakes wield the ability to inflict political damage to the world’s most ironclad regimes with a level of potency matched only by their unpredictability.
- Costa Rica president's private jet use prompts investigation
 SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Costa Rica's President Laura Chinchilla came under pressure on Tuesday after the government admitted she had used a private jet owned by a foreign oil company, prompting an investigation by the attorney general's office. Communications minister Francisco Chacon told reporters Chinchilla had taken the jet, paid for by Colombia-based oil company THX Energy, last weekend to Peru to attend a wedding and meet Peruvian President Ollanta Umala. She also used a plane paid for by the firm to attend the funeral of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, he added. ...
- Mayan pyramid destroyed in Belize
An ancient Mayan temple in Belize has been destroyed by a road-building crew using bulldozers and backhoes to extract gravel for road filler.
- AP IMPACT: Honduran police accused as death squads
 TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing just after run-ins with the U.S.-supported national police, The Associated Press has determined, feeding accusations that they were victims of federal death squads.
- Builders bulldoze big Mayan pyramid in Belize
 BELIZE CITY (AP) — A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.
- Guatemala government must apologize after Rios Montt verdict: judge
 By Mike McDonald GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan court ordered the government on Monday to apologize for atrocities committed against indigenous people in the country's civil war after former dictator Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity. Judges sentenced Rios Montt to 80 years in prison on Friday after finding him responsible for deliberate killings by the armed forces of at least 1,771 members of the Maya Ixil population during his 1982-83 rule. "Victims deserve fair restitution," Judge Yasmin Barrios told a compensation hearing on Monday. ...
- AP IMPACT: Honduran criminals missing after arrest
 TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing just after run-ins with the U.S.-supported national police, The Associated Press has determined, feeding accusations that they were victims of federal death squads.
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NEW YORK (AP) — At 14, Tyler Cohen had never been out of the country or traveled without his Long Island family when he found himself in Costa Rica on a monthlong service trip for teens.
New images of a possible lost city hidden by Honduran rain forests show what might be the building foundations and mounds of Ciudad Blanca, a never-confirmed legendary metropolis.
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