All articles about Central America
On this page please find all English articles and press releases about Central America.
05 March 2012 “As I got more involved in my academic studies it made me realise that I am a citizen who is equal to any official.”
05 March 2012 “The theme of citizenship should be separate from party politics and be more critical of the social and political envirnoment.”
05 March 2012 “I didn’t realise that as a citizen I have the right and the duty to inform myself and also to find out what is happening in our municipality.”
05 March 2012 “She knows that her mother went to look for her, that I turned the world upside down to find out where she is and I hope to continue doing so until the day I die.”
05 March 2012 “I didn’t go back because my mother said “here we’ll get by one way or another”. So I started a business which is what I live off now."
05 March 2012 “I didn’t know what a business plan was before but thanks to the training we have received I now know what a business plan is for.”
05 March 2012 “As a result of the training I now see things differently. I don’t want to be the same as before, I want to get out of this situation of underdevelopment in which we live.”
05 March 2012 “It’s like a raffle, you don’t know if you’ll win or lose. There’s something there but you don’t know if it’s real or just a dream.”
05 March 2012 “We all came to an agreement, without undermining anybody. We took into account everyone’s opinions and suggestions, and agreed that we would work together on the coffee.”
05 March 2012 “We have put in the effort and put into pratice what we have seen to be successful ways of producing on other plots of land or in other places.”
05 December 2011 Enjoy your coffee while you have it. Cause in the future a good cup of mocha will be harder to come by – and the cost will rise. Climate changes are demanding a great sacrifice.
19 June 2011 The Inspirator program is showing excellent results in Honduras and Nicaragua.
31 March 2011 Testimonies from women and men. In their own words, they expose what we all aim to achieve: significant changes in the lives of rights holders.
31 March 2011 Testimonies from women and men. In their own words, they expose what we all aim to achieve: significant changes in the lives of rights holders.
31 March 2011 Testimonies from women and men. In their own words, they expose what we all aim to achieve: significant changes in the lives of rights holders.
31 March 2011 Testimonies from women and men. In their own words, they expose what we all aim to achieve: significant changes in the lives of rights holders.
31 March 2011 Testimonies from women and men. In their own words, they expose what we all aim to achieve: significant changes in the lives of rights holders.
31 March 2011 Testimonies from women and men. In their own words, they expose what we all aim to achieve: significant changes in the lives of rights holders.
31 March 2011 Testimonies from women and men. In their own words, they expose what we all aim to achieve: significant changes in the lives of rights holders.
31 March 2011 Testimonies from women and men. In their own words, they expose what we all aim to achieve: significant changes in the lives of rights holders.
31 March 2011 Testimonies from women and men. In their own words, they expose what we all aim to achieve: significant changes in the lives of rights holders.
10 November 2010 ActionAid Denmark appoints Lesbia Morales from Nicaragua as new country director to Nicaragua and Honduras. She has long-term experience from development work in both international NGOs, civil society organisations and government institutions.
04 June 2010 Activista is coming to America – or at least to Latin America. Eighteen youths have met to create the basis for a more vivid movement for activism on the continent.
04 June 2010 Video with comments and reflections on the first Latin American Activista seminar, May 2010.
02 September 2009 Review recognizes MS Central America’s efforts in Trade Justice. The programme is “in fact successfully tackling one of the main challenges of small farmers and producers.”
17 March 2009 Testimonies from women and men who through their own words express what we as an organization of cooperation aim at: changes in poor people’s life.
17 March 2009 Testimonies from women and men who through their own words express what we as an organization of cooperation aim at: changes in poor people’s life.
17 March 2009 Testimonies from women and men who through their own words express what we as an organization of cooperation aim at: changes in poor people’s life.
17 March 2009 Testimonies from women and men who through their own words express what we as an organization of cooperation aim at: changes in poor people’s life.
17 March 2009 Testimonies from women and men who through their own words express what we as an organization of cooperation aim at: changes in poor people’s life.
17 March 2009 Testimonies from women and men who through their own words express what we as an organization of cooperation aim at: changes in poor people’s life.
17 March 2009 Testimonies from women and men who through their own words express what we as an organization of cooperation aim at: changes in poor people’s life.
17 March 2009 Testimonies from women and men who through their own words express what we as an organization of cooperation aim at: changes in poor people’s life.
17 March 2009 Testimonies from women and men who through their own words express what we as an organization of cooperation aim at: changes in poor people’s life.
12 February 2008 In a community in Nicaragua, the mayor wanted to build a community house. But the citizens preferred clean water - and made the mayor change his plans.
12 February 2007 President Daniel Ortega makes “alarming changes” and concentrate power, says MS partnerorganization.
14 July 2006 The president of El Salvador Antonio Saca more than suggests that two policemen killed in a demonstration were victims of the leftist FMLN party.
19 June 2006 The government scraps agreement on distribution of debt relief – Small and poor municipalities in the rural zones pay a high price.
19 May 2006 What we cannot achieve multilaterally, we snatch bilaterally – this is the logic of EU and USA commercial policies in Central America, says a Mexican activist.
17 May 2006 Increasing violence has lead to a remilitarisation of Guatemala, says Rogelia de Carmen Soto Chacon, new MS programme officer.
04 February 2006 Young painters increase awareness on hiv/aids as a reality in Guatemala. Development worker Kisten Madsen tells about the experience.
27 January 2006 During his election campaign, Manuel Zelaya, new president of Honduras, promised to empower citizens. Now voters are reminding him of his promises.
27 January 2006 A struggle between the different wings of the leftist FMLN is bound to ensue, but not before the elections of 12 March, says Jaime López, director of the Salvadoran NGO Probidad.
09 December 2005 It was not until ten days after the election that the candidate of the ruling Nationalist party, Porfirio Lobo, admitted defeat
16 October 2005 Nuria Gatell, MS development worker in Guatemala, writes diary from communities hit by flooding and mud shred provoked by the tropical storm.
26 September 2005 Electoral fraud will bear consequences for Danish development assistance, says visiting Danish development minister Ulla Tørnæs.
13 September 2005 MS partners in Central America use the WTO as a stone to throw at the 'free' trade agreement with the United States.
01 September 2005 None of the five parties participating in the Honduran elections has published its campaign budget.
01 September 2005 The Electoral Law states that thirty percent of the candidates on the party slates should be women, but no party complies.
01 September 2005 Parties stay in power thanks to 'blind vote'. However, in the opinion of journalist Manuel Torres, civil society in Honduras is gaining ground.
26 July 2005 Mario Godínez, general co-ordinator of CEIBA is one of the many Guatemalan activists that have been receiving anonymous threats lately.
26 July 2005 The perpetrators are persons close to the government and economically influential circles, says Ana Gladys Ollas of the Unity for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders.
26 July 2005 The Guatemalan youth group H.I.J.O.S. refuses to forget and forgive. It pays dearly for that.
30 June 2005 It is the small farmers and not the “agronomist” who must solve the existing problems, says Carlos Ruiz, the new MS Programme Officer in Honduras.
23 June 2005 High social vulnerability, unequal income distribution, high poverty rates and a lack of political answers are challenges the EU highlight in their initial analysis.
27 May 2005 After the tropical storm ‘Adrian’ crossed Central American over El Salvador, there were fortunately only minor damages to report among the population and the environment.
18 April 2005 The government of El Salvador admits that there are poor people but fails to mention that a very small group lives in conditions of extreme wealth.
07 April 2005 CoCivica, a network of Salvadoran NGOs, will organise information caravans to eighteen municipalities during Global Week of Action.
07 April 2005 In Central America some eighty percent of the food aid provided by USAID and the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
14 March 2005 The MS partner CEIBA describes the agreement as a cul-de-sac and a "butchering knife stuck into national sovereignty" as native seeds will be driven out of the market by new genetically modified types.
02 March 2005 Protesting against Parliament’s haste to pass bills on free trade and mining, representatives of Guatemalan civil society occupied the entrance and exit doors of Parliament for 10 hours.
07 December 2004 The Kenya - Central America exchange, facilitated by MS Kenya and MS Central America, aspires to take joint action in the struggle of the poor against the multinationals.
26 November 2004 The North-South Advocacy Group opens spaces for political advocacy for a “forgotten region and people”, said an indegenous representitative at the GISN General Assembly in November. MS and several of its partner organisations are members.
16 November 2004 In the 4th challenge to democracy in Guatemala Lone Hvass highlights the role of the parliament - ideally as well as realistically. According to a MS partner, parliament is not the centre for national political debate.
08 November 2004 Extensive and not always well-managed control of the voting tables made of the Nicaraguan municipal elections a marathon – at turtleneck speed.
04 November 2004 The Nicaraguan Network for Democracy and Local Development is using an approach that focuses on municipalities to strengthen citizen participation.
25 October 2004 Kenyan anthropologist Matildah Musumba is development worker in El Salvador to merge the campaigns "Central America is not for sale" and "Africa is not for sale".
28 September 2004 The media heaped praise on the new Salvadoran president – both for free and through paid advertisements. A propaganda campaign, says MS partner CoCívica after comparing the electoral promises to reality.
25 August 2004 Danida approves the international gender network, which is to be coordinated by the Nicaragua South-North Advocacy Group.
10 August 2004 An English introduction to the August 2004 issue of El Eslabón which is published in Spanish.
10 August 2004 Salvadoran and Honduran adolescents join the struggle against HIV, AIDS and adult prejudice.
06 August 2004 In July MS's Aids advisor Kirsten Madsen organised a workshop in Guatemala. Here follows impressions from the workshop.
05 August 2004 Hiv/Aids advisor Kirsten Madsen is currently visiting a series of MS programme countries. She has visited East Africa and Central America and will soon be on her way to Mozambique.
31 January 2004 Since June 2003 Mette Frost Bertelsen has been working for MS as an analysis adviser in the organisation IPADE in Nicaragua.
29 January 2004 Chico Peña is a volunteer in COMUS, an organisation that works with reconciliation and advising in 40 communities in El Salvador.
13 November 2003 Donors were impressed by coherent signals from when the Nicaraguan government and representatives of civil society met with international financial institutions and donor nations.
24 October 2003 There are only few female candidates in the upcoming elections in Guatemala. Based on the forum "Women on their way to power", Lone Hvass reports about female candidates from different parties.
20 October 2003 Notes by DanChurchAid from meeting in Copenhagen, translated by Lone Hvass.
16 October 2003 Elections in Guatemala are approaching, read this update from our correspondent about polls, economic policy, vote buying, the candidature of Rios Montt and the different electoral observers initiatives.
11 September 2003 Thousands of desperate coffee workers are threatening to return to major intersections and the roadside along the Pan-American highway in northern Nicaragua.
22 August 2003 Lone Hvass writes a comprehensive background article with personal impressions from the recent riots taking place in Guatemala - as a supplement to the interview with press man Ruben Zamora.
18 August 2003 MS development worker Erika Brenner reports about the third coffee worker march in a row, about the present free trade negotiations with the US - and about a recent coffee competition with a Nicaraguan winner.
25 July 2003 Video interview with El Periódico founder Rubén Zamora by Lone Hvass and Peter Bischoff, conducted during the violent pro Rios Montt demonstrations in Guatemala City July 24th and 25th 2003.
25 July 2003 Video interview with Rubén Zamora - English transcript total part 1-4.
02 July 2003 Erika Brenner meets URNG Executive Committee Member Amaro Cifuentes Lopez in Xela.
02 July 2003 Lone Hvass outlines candidates, problems and the position of civil society organisations before the upcoming general elections in Guatemala in November 2003.
26 February 2003 Local elections turn out to be a veritable massacre of the small parties. Six out of eleven will be disappearing, as they did not succeed in getting the three percent required.
26 February 2003 Photo gallery from the 2003 local elections in El Salvador.
13 December 2002 Ex-President Arnoldo Alemán is no longer able to avoid justice. A narrow majority of the Parliament left his fate in the hands of the legal system. “History will acquit me”, says Alemán.
19 September 2002 Tension is growing in Nicaragua as the new majority removes Board of the Parliament and increase possibilities that Alemán will have to face trial.
12 September 2002 Development worker Preben H. Rasmussen describes lifes as it is seen during the last five days of the crisis, next to the Inter American Highway, in the camp just South of Sébaco.
11 September 2002 Ten of the accused are placed under custody for further investigations. Ex-president Alemán and daughter escape justice because of parliamentary immunity, but popular pressure is increasing.
11 September 2002 Just like last year, queues are these days part of everyday life on and along the Inter American Highway in Northern Nicaragua. One queue of landless coffee workers and another of vehicles.
10 September 2002 Northern Nicaragua has two realities these days. The picturesque with green landscapes and hills – and the ugly with poverty, hopelessness and hunger. You never know what awaits you down the hill, after the curve.
10 September 2002 Images from roadside camps and blockings.
13 August 2002 Civil society says it out loud: “The IMF deliberately pretended not to see what was happening. To me, what is happening now, is a cover-up for sins committed in the past, of which the IMF also holds responsibility”.
07 August 2002 August 7th, 2002 will be remembered in Nicaraguan history as the day a former President and most of his closest family was officially charged on suspicion of money-laundering.
12 October 2001 The Globalization by People strategy presupposes asking those who control power in the world to accept sharing it with the most vulnerable nations. A little odd, frankly!
22 August 2001 Politicians show little interest in the crisis in Central America, but 350 private organizations suggest a solution than can make Nicaragua less dependent on the global coffee market.
