February 3, 2010 Fr. Joe Mulligan, a Nicaraguan-based priest is hoping that letters to President Obama and members of Congress can lead to more information being revealed about the fate of a fellow Irish-American Jesuit who disappeared in Honduras in1983.  Read his most recent article.

January 13, 2010 - At 1:30pm, a military and police patrol captured three members of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan along the Aguan river. The men are members of the Buenos Amigos Cooperative in the municipality of Trujillo. According to farmers in the zone, there are approximately 1000 armed men, military and paramilitary, under the command of Coronel Dagoberto Melgar occupying the area. He is suspected of selling protection services to large African palm plantation owners in the region.

Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguan

We are continung to get updates on the extensive damage in Haiti and specifically Port au Prince.

Hundreds of small farmers from the "Agrarian Platform" blocked the border between Guatemala and Honduras since yesterday in protest of the elections in Honduras which they consider to be illegal. The farmers blocked all transport from crossing the border, creating long lines of vehicles waiting to cross and resulting in economic losses.  The blockade was lifted today.