Today's News Concerning Central America

Press-Enterprise
REDLANDS: Discover Panama with the Museum Association
Press-Enterprise
Learn about a San Bernardino County Museum Association trip to Panama at a presentation by Collette Vacations on Tuesday, May 22 at 6 pm at the museum. The presentation is open to the public. Explore the colors and natural beauty of Panama — the land ...

Panama City Police Review Panhandling and Nuisance Ordinances
WJHG-TV
Panama City - Panama City Police say they want to review the impact of two new laws before they begin enforcing them, They are devising guidelines for the new panhandling and nuisance ordinances. Critics say these two laws target the city's homeless ...

Guatemalan mother seeks 'stolen' daughter's return from US
CNN International
In Guatemala, she is known as Anyeli. Guatemalan authorities say Anyeli was snatched from Rodriguez and sold to an international adoption agency. Last year, a Guatemalan judge ruled that the girl belonged with Rodriguez, and not with her adoptive ...

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Guatemala: Joint Campaign Against Child Malnutrition
Reuters AlertNet
This 2-month campaign aims to raise awareness among Guatemala's 14 million population about the impact of chronic malnutrition, which affects nearly 50 percent of Guatemalan children under 5 years of age. WFP and Radio National Corporation (RCN), ...

BBC News
Honduras Blames Journalist Murder on Narcos Protesting Extradition
InSight Crime
Honduras' government has said that the murder of journalist Alfredo Villatoro is a backlash by drug traffickers against the country allowing extradition to the US, though members of the country's press were the target of attacks well before the recent ...
Alfredo Villatoro Dead: Murder Of Honduran Reporter Blamed On Drug GangsHuffington Post
Kidnapped Honduran radio news director found slainThe Associated Press
Honduran news director found deadBusinessWeek
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Hotze Health & Wellness Center Brings New Life to a Very Special School
Houston Chronicle
Hotze Health & Wellness Center (HHWC), a world leader in the alternative health care industry, launched its New Life for a Very Special School campaign today on Facebook, to raise awareness and give back to the New Life School Guatemala, a non-profit ...

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BBC News
Hondurans demand DEA leave after shooting
MiamiHerald.com
Now reverberations from the controversial drug raid are being felt from the sultry jungles of Central America to Capitol Hill. Last week's Drug Enforcement Administration-supported predawn raid on the banks of a remote Honduran river began when US drug ...
DEA Linked with Human Rights Violation in Central AmericaPrensa Latina
Honduras: US agents on deadly operationNews24
DEA Involved In Killings Of Innocent Civilians During Drug Interdiction ...THE Weed Blog (blog)
CBS News
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BBC News
Hondurans demand DEA leave after shooting
The Associated Press
Now reverberations from the controversial drug raid are being felt from the sultry jungles of Central America to Capitol Hill. Last week's Drug Enforcement Administration-supported predawn raid on the banks of a remote Honduran river began when US drug ...
DEA Linked with Human Rights Violation in Central AmericaPrensa Latina
Honduras: US agents on deadly operationNews24
DEA Involved In Killings Of Innocent Civilians During Drug Interdiction ...THE Weed Blog (blog)
CBS News
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US judge tosses RICO lawsuit in Panama will fight, says statute of limitations ...
Washington Post
It sought $725 million and accused members of Panama's Arias family, attorneys and three judges of trying to steal the estate of wealthy businessman Wilson C. Lucom. He died in 2006. Attorney Richard Lehman says Lucom wanted to create a foundation to ...

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Inmet finances Cobre Panama under majority ownership
Canadian Mining Journal
VANCOUVER — Toronto-based major Inmet Mining has opted to retain its majority interest in the world-class Cobre Panama copper-gold project through development financing, as the company announced a hybrid plan that would see it shoulder the bulk of a ...
Inmet Mining Joins the International Council on Mining and MetalsEnergy Digital (press release)

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thebahamasweekly.com
Top Business Interests from Central America and Caribbean Gather in OAS ...
thebahamasweekly.com
More than sixty business leaders from Central America and the Caribbean met this week in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago to discuss new opportunities for partnerships and expanding business between the two regions, as well as challenges to trade.

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Thunderbird Resorts Inc.: Interim Management Statement First Quarter 2012
Reuters
PANAMA, REPUBLIC OF PANAMA--(Marketwire - May 17, 2012) - Thunderbird Resorts Inc. (FRANKFURT: 4TR)(EURONEXT: TBIRD) ("Thunderbird") announces that the Interim Management Statement ("IMS") for the first quarter of 2012 has been filed with the Euronext ...

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Gamaliel Escobar-Mendez accused of returning illegally to U.S. from Guatemala
Waynesboro Record Herald
By Staff reports A 31-year-old Guatemala native who was convicted of vehicular homicide in a 2005 accident in Chambersburg has been charged with illegal re-entry into the United States. Gamaliel Escobar-Mendez was charged in a one-count indictment by a ...

Federal Judge Blocks Enforcement of NDAA's Indefinite Detention Provisions
The New American
During testimony presented at the hearing in March, Chris Hedges recounted a few of his personal experiences while serving as a journalist covering the conflict in the Middle East, as well as his dealings with terrorist groups based in Central America.

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NY FBI agent killed in WWII secret mission honored
Fox News
The FBI at the time was tasked with counterintelligence and intelligence collection duties in South and Central America. "In November of 1942, the allied forces under Eisenhower stormed the beaches of North Africa and we took Algeria and Morocco," ...

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ZIZ Live
Top Business Interests from Central America and Caribbean Gather in OAS ...
ZIZ Live
May 17 2012 -- More than sixty business leaders from Central America and the Caribbean met this week in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago to discuss new opportunities for partnerships and expanding business between the two regions, ...

Thunderbird Resorts Inc.: Interim Management Statement First Quarter 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
PANAMA, REPUBLIC OF PANAMA, May 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Thunderbird Resorts Inc. (frankfurt:4TR) ("Thunderbird") announces that the Interim Management Statement ("IMS") for the first quarter of 2012 has been filed with the Euronext ...

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ESPN
Adan Perez, lost at the track
ESPN
That's one of the thoughts that's been hard to shake in the days since Adan Fabian Perez, a 48-year-old groom from Guatemala, turned up dead in Barn 8 on the backstretch of Churchill Downs on May 6, just 10 hours after the running of this year's ...

Mexican Cartel Gunmen Arrested in Guatemala
Latin American Herald Tribune
GUATEMALA CITY – Three suspected employees of Mexico's Los Zetas drug cartel were arrested in the eastern province of Zacapa after a gunfight with security forces, the Guatemalan interior minister said Thursday. The clash Wednesday in the town of ...

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Honduras Weekly
Mitt Romney's Job Creation Snow Job
Honduras Weekly
Like businessmen Miguel Facussé and Fredy Nasser in Honduras, Mitt knows how to make a lot of money. No one should be under any illusions about all that understanding the economy and job creation stuff. By Marco Cáceres One of the debates that is ...

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