Announcing the new Garifuna Photo vote
Apr 15, 2005
The largest Garifuna Photo Gallery in the World, now allows its visitors to vote for their favorite Garifuna photo. Since its introduction about two weeks ago, there have been over 350 new Garifuna photos added and over 40 photo albums created.

New Protests and Electric Tariff Rise in Nicaragua Announced
Apr 12, 2005
Protests by transportation workers, due to the increase of oil prices, and by students against the high cost of life continue

HONDURAS: REPRESSION AGAINST GARIFUNA PEOPLE
Apr 11, 2005
Below, you will find an urgent action from OFRANEH, a partner group of Rights Action in Honduras. In the near future, we will report more fully on their situation.

Along with OFRANEH, Rights Action fears that repression against Garifuna
communities will increase, under pressure from the international tourism industry increase to get control of their lands on Honduras' north shore.

State Department rejects La. man's complaint against Honduras
Apr 10, 2005
D-La., wrote a letter to the Honduran president chiding him for not doing more to ensure that Americans are treated fairly by the legal system in Honduras.

U.S. Fears Comeback of An Old Foe in Nicaragua
Apr 06, 2005
Even though the Nicaragua elections are more than a year and a half away, and even though Ortega's chances seem slim, the Bush administration is taking no

INTERNET OR INTER-NOT, A GARIFUNA PROGRESS BAR
Apr 05, 2005
Thanks to the internet, the different ethnic groups are able to come together as one by only logging into their computers. A website can be used as a launching pad to keep a community together. It can be used to inform and dispel the doubts and ignorance that some of us have in regards to people who we know little about like the Garifuna.

El Salvador hopes `nostalgia' foods will boom under new U.S. export agreement
Apr 04, 2005
In a country where nearly a quarter of the population lives and works abroad, Madecadel Barriere has become a symbol of

Pope John Paul II dies at age 84; world in mourning
Apr 02, 2005
Others mentioned include Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, Cardinal Francis Arinze, a Vatican-based

Bowdoin College devotes week to fighting poverty
Apr 01, 2005
With fresh memories of their trips to places such as Nicaragua, Peru, Washington, DC, and Harlem, ASB participants kicked off Bowdoin's first kNOw Poverty Week

Old empires find an old way to assert new power
Mar 31, 2005
Full ownership is not necessary but central control is. ... to develop, and tried to keep their exchange rates down against the currency of America, their biggest