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Estimated Gang Membership in the Northern Triangle of Central America, 2012

27th December 2016 Chapter 9 / Troublesome Gangs

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Chapter 9

  • US Intervention
    • Reparations for victims of the US-led 1989 invasion of Panama
    • The Silent Invasion of Panama? Trump Said that the US Would Reclaim the Panama Canal
    • US deportees arriving in Panama and Costa Rica
    • El Salvador’s Controversial Offer: Housing U.S. Criminals in Its Mega-Prison
    • Los Horcones, Honduras: Reflections on a Massacre and Its Legacy
    • US threats can’t stop our growing relations with Central America: China reacts to visa restrictions
    • U.S. Scrambles to Put Pressure on Nicaragua
    • All Sides of the Same Coin: Honduran Elections
    • US military bases in Costa Rica?
    • PANAMA’S SHIFT TOWARD MILITARIZATION RAISES SOVEREIGNTY CONCERNS
  • Emergency in Guatemala
    • Guatemala – a state of emergency?
    • You couldn’t make it up – I – the case of Rodrigo Rosenberg
    • Otto Pérez Molina
    • Guatemala’s Mafia State and the Case of Mauricio López Bonilla
    • Continuing emergency in Guatemala, 2019
    • Organised crime, including drug traffickers, linked to repressive Guatemalan president and government
    • GUATEMALA’S PRESIDENTS: Same old corruption
    • You couldn’t make it up – IV: Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei
    • Agaisnt all odds: The Criminalisation of Land Rights Activists in Guatemala
    • CONTRA TODO PRONÓSTICO: LA CRIMINALIZACIÓN DE PERSONAS DEFENSORAS DEL DERECHO A LA TIERRA EN GUATEMALA
    • Killings of Defenders Increase Sharply
    • Guatemala’s worst year on record for human rights in 21st century
    • María Consuelo Porras, Guatemala’s Attorney General Person of the Year in Organised Crime and Corruption
    • Structural violence underpins land disputes in Guatemala
    • Guatemalan Human Rights: Recent Trends
  • The 2009 coup and its aftermath in Honduras
    • Oligarchy
    • Honduras Narco-trafficker Testifies in New York Court That Ex-President Porfirio Lobo Took Bribes from Traffickers
    • Narcotraficante de Honduras dice que expresidente aceptó sus sobornos
    • Honduran politicians, U.S. aid implicated in killings of environmentalists
    • Life Laid Bare in Honduras: How the Migrant Caravan Makes Neoliberal Dictatorship Visible
    • Honduras: Murder Rate Surges Deflating Hopes for Better 2019
    • Israeli and US Troops to Honduras
    • Honduras: Protests Intensify Against President Hernandez
    • The Hernández Brothers – the narco-state of Honduras
    • Edwin Espinal, Political Prisoners, State-sponsored Drug Traffickers and Persecution in Honduras
    • Former head of Honduran police charged in US with drug trafficking crimes
    • Honduras 2009-2020: 11 years of U.S. and Canadian-backed dictator, repression, exploitation – 11 years of resistance and solidarity
    • Honduras 2009-2020: 11 años de dictadura, repression y explotación respaldado por los EE.UU. y Canada –  11 años de resistencia y solidaridad
    • Honduras descends further into a living hell
    • The Evolution of US-Backed Death Squads in Honduras: The Pathology of U.S. Foreign Policy
    • Edwin Espinal and Raúl Álvarez, Honduran political prisoners – all charges dropped
    • US Intervention and Capitalism Have Created a Monster in Honduras
    • End of a Narcostate?
    • International Commission Against Impunity to Be Installed in Honduras
    • The challenges facing the new Honduran government
    • COFADEH recognized on National Human Rights Day “Mothers of this Plaza, the people embrace you”
    • Embajador argentino: “madres de esta plaza, el pueblo las abraza”
    • In Honduras, the killings continue
    • Honduran Activists Are Protesting ‘State of Emergency’ That Suspends Civil Rights
    • Copying Bukele in El Salvador, Honduras declares its own ‘state of exception’
    • Ferro-nickel and iron ore mines result in persecution and assassinations in Guatemala and Honduras
    • While Projecting a Friendly Face and an Extended Hand, the Biden Administration Has Continually Challenged the Initiatives of Honduras’ New Progressive Government and Ignored the Voice of the Honduran People
    • Honduran government faces US and corporate backlash
    • Trying to head off a coup in Honduras
    • Early warning signals of yet another U.S. administration preparing yet another intervention in Honduras
    • General elections in Honduras: Emerging risks for land defenders
    • Trump’s interference invalidates the presidential election in Honduras
    • Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking.
  • The scale and nature of present day violence
      • Troublesome environmentalists
        • Narco-cattle ranchers in the Petén
        • Costa Rica: land of natural wonders and threats to those who defend them
        • Honduran environmentalists under threat
        • Honduras most dangerous country for environmental activists
        • 2016 assassinations of environmental rights defenders in Guatemala
        • Activists are Dying for Your Food: Environmental Defenders Murdered in Record Numbers Last Year
        • Guatemala: teleSUR Correspondent Attacked By Men With Machetes
        • The Escazú Agreement: Defending Front Line Defenders
      • Troublesome Journalists
        • Another murder in the murder capital of the world
        • Gunmen Kill 2 Journalists in Southern Town in Guatemala
        • 2016 assassinations of journalist rights defenders in Guatemala
        • Dina Meza, Honduran journalist and human rights defender, visits London
        • Nayib Bukele’s war on quality investigative journalism
        • Indigenous Guatemalan Journalist Faces Charges after Reporting on Protest
        • Lenca Indigenous Journalist Pablo Hernández Is Gunned Down
        • Journalist shot dead in Honduras: 4th journalist killed this year
      • Troublesome trade unionists
        • FNL members assassinated, 2009 – 2011
        • ANEXCO harasses and fires union members
        • 2016 assassinations of union and community rights defenders in Guatemala
      • Troublesome Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders
        • Dr Juan Almendares: Letter to Mother Earth and Humanity of the Planet
        • Facussé threatens human rights activists, beheads peasants
        • CISPES Supports Human Rights Defender in Face of Death Threats
        • María Santos Domínguez
        • Defending Rights Defenders
        • Human Rights Defender Murdered in Jalapa Campesino Organisation Targeted
      • Troublesome street children
        • Social cleansing
        • Violent deaths and extrajudicial executions in Honduras, children and youth, 1998 – 2011
        • Emergencies in children’s homes in both Guatemala and Honduras
      • Troublesome women
        • Nicaragua’s abortion ban
        • ‘Anyone Can Murder A Woman In Honduras And Nothing Will Happen’ Women and girls in the barrios live in constant fear of sexual attack and a violent death
        • 10 femicides in first 11 days of August 2020 in El Salvador
        • Guatemala: Thousands of women take to the streets against femicides
        • Honduran lawmakers seek to permanently ban abortion
      • Troublesome Gangs
        • Estimates of gang membership, Central America
        • Estimates of gang membership, Central America (Table)
        • Homicide Rates in the Northern Triangle: 2004-2015
        • Estimated Gang Membership in the Northern Triangle of Central America, 2012
        • MS-13 seeks truce with the government
        • How gangs can affect everybody
        • El Salvador’s State of Exception
        • What the ‘state of exception’ means in El Salvador
        • El Salvador builds Latin America’s largest prison
  • The drug channel
    • You couldn’t make it up – II – defending the ‘white lobster’
    • Letter from Bismuna – a cracked paradise
    • You couldn’t make it up – III – Top brass gangsterism
    • Wealthy Land-owner Miguel Facussé, Bio-fuels, Repression: Wikileaks Reveals links to Narco-trafficking
    • The US Accuses Nicaragua of ‘Institutional Corruption’ But its Own Report Doesn’t Support its Claim
    • Drug trafficking in Central America affected by Covid-19: implications for local development issues
    • Drugs more valuable than aircraft: the Belize drugs channel
    • Cocapples anyone?
    • Moves on marijuana in Central America
    • New Documents: US-trained special forces involved in drug trafficking
    • Semi-submersible drug carrier intercepted off Costa Rica
  • A Culture of impunity
    • COFADEH’s open letter to the Director of Public Prosecutions
    • Impunity through the Honduran Public Prosecutor’s Office
    • On the criminalization and repression of social protest
    • Sobre la criminalización y represión de la protesta social
    • SLAPPs: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
    • List of Massacres in 2025 in Honduras upto and including 12th July
    • Olancho: tres mil muertos en una década de violencia sin fin
    • Olancho: three thousand dead in a decade of violence without end
    • Impunidad y conflictividad llevan al OACNUDH a instalar oficina de terreno en el atlántico de Honduras
    • Impunity and conflict lead OHCHR to set up field office on Honduras’ Caribbean coast

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