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...open-pit mining. The move is likely to result in the largest such gold mine in Central America, Las Crucitas, to be operated by a Canadian-owned firm, Infinito, and will require clearing 125 acres (50 hectares) of forest land. It also has environmentalists in Costa Rica and Nicaragua warning of a cross-border eco-catastrophe in the event of cyanide leaks into the San Juan River. (Cyanide is used in recovering gold...
Zelaya's dramatic bid to fly home fails after police block the runway at Tegucigalpa's airport. At least one protester is killed during the ensuing melee, and Zelaya's plane is forced to divert to Nicaragua. The U.S. quickly condemns the violence...
Zelaya takes a symbolic step into Honduras at the land border with Nicaragua in an attempt to pressure the government to allow him to return...
...prospect of Georgian reunification," he says. Since the cease-fire, Russian troops have effectively sealed the border between South Ossetia and the rest of Georgia, and increased their military presence in both South Ossetia and Abkhazia. But while Moscow has recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent nations, only Nicaragua and Venezuela have followed suit...
That turned out not to be true, but it reflected the wishes of the left, especially Nicaragua and Venezuela, which on Monday spoke against the San José Accord. It also echoed a personal friction between Ortega and Arias that dates back to the 1980s, during their first presidencies, when Arias helped broker peace settlements to end Central American civil wars like the one Ortega and his Sandinista Revolution were fighting against U.S.-backed contra rebels. Ortega made it clear soon after the Honduran coup that he felt it was the role of ALBA, not of the more conservative Arias...