This Americas Society policy brief highlights the role of the private sector in violence prevention to provide a more nuanced grasp of the space that can be filled by the business community.
The Honduran government is pushing plans to build privately funded cities under the jurisdiction of Mauritian courts, with hopes for a Central American version of Hong Kong.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Mexico and Honduras next month ahead of April’s Summit of the Americas.
The February 14 fire that claimed more than 350 lives in a Honduran prison revealed the grave overcrowding in the region's jails and raised questions about modernizing Central America's justice system.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's upcoming visit to Honduras on August 12 "certainly gives impetus toward others viewing this as a situation that said, 'Look, the Honduran people have suffered enough, we have to find a way to bring Honduras back into the community of democracies in the region,'" says COA's Eric Farnsworth.
"We are losing Central America. It's time to fight to win it back," writes COA's Eric Farnsworth in The Miami Herald.
Nearly two years after Honduran head of state Manuel Zelaya was forced into exile, a deal signed with current President Porfirio Lobo allows for the ousted leader's homecoming and the country's return to the OAS.