Central America
Central American officials to participate in COMITRAN intersectoral meeting in El Salvador
May 15 |
Delegations of ministers and vice ministers of Transportation and Infrastructure of Central America arrived this Monday, May 15, in El Salvador to participate in the fourth intersectoral meeting of the Sectoral Council of Ministers of Transportation and Infrastructure of Central America (COMITRAN), in which the Regional Master Plan for Mobility and Logistics until 2035 will be approved.
El Salvador’s Minister of Public Works, Romeo Rodríguez, assumed this year’s protempore presidency of COMITRAN, which is made up of the ministers of transportation and infrastructure of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
On Sunday, Panama’s delegation, headed by Rictzy Aparicio, Director of Planning and Budget, entered the country. The Honduran delegation, led by Bayardo Pogoada Figueroa, Undersecretary of Transportation, and the Nicaraguan delegation, headed by Efraín Zeledón, Vice-Minister of Infrastructure, and Oscar Mejía, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, have now arrived in the country. Representing Costa Rica was Efraín Zeledón Leiva, Vice Minister of Infrastructure; and from Guatemala, Admiral Erick Alejandro Sánchez.
Rictzy Aparicio, Director of Planning and Budget of Panama’s Ministry of Public Works.
Technical commissions from the Central American Economic Integration System (SIECA), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are also participating in this important meeting.
According to the Ministry of Public Works (MOP), these organizations have played a key role in the formulation of the Regional Mobility and Logistics Master Plan. As part of the agenda, the meeting of the Council of Ministers will begin at 1:30 to 6:30 pm, after which officials will move to the National Palace, where they will enjoy a cultural event.
Central America
Arévalo calls corruption the “fuel of inequality” and reaffirms commitment to public transparency
Guatemala’s President, Bernardo Arévalo, stated on Friday that corruption is “the food of misery” in his country and reaffirmed his government’s commitment to continuing to strengthen public spending transparency.
During the first anniversary of the National Commission Against Corruption (CNC) established by his administration, the president expressed his satisfaction with the progress made.
“The road has been difficult,” he said, “but I am greatly satisfied with the fight against corruption, which is the fuel of inequality and the food of misery,” the president declared before members of the international community and government officials.
Arévalo also mentioned that the people who elected him in 2023 for a four-year term that began on January 14, 2024, “demand that we combat corruption.”
Central America
Zúñiga hopes CIDH experts can help investigate intellectual authors of Berta Cáceres’ murder
Bertha Zúñiga, daughter of the murdered Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres, expressed her hope on Friday to EFE that the expert group appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) will help investigate the authorship of the crime to “heal the wounds” and rebuild the social fabric in indigenous communities affected by the hydroelectric project her mother opposed.
The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) represents an “effort to exhaust the investigations” into the responsibilities of all individuals involved in Cáceres’ murder, as well as in the “violence suffered” from the implementation of the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project, led by the company Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA), emphasized Zúñiga.
“We hope that, with the collaboration of the prosecutorial entities, (the experts) will effectively collaborate to move forward on what we have proposed and demanded for many years: formally requiring the intellectual authors of this crime and analyzing the related crimes,” including corruption and other violations, as well as proposing a comprehensive reparation plan for the victims of the hydroelectric project,” Zúñiga explained.
The CIDH appointed a group of four experts from Argentina, Chile, the United States, and Guatemala on Friday to provide technical assistance to Honduras in investigating the intellectual authorship of Cáceres’ murder, which occurred on March 2, 2016, while she was sleeping in her home in La Esperanza, despite the multiple death threats she had reported due to her opposition to the Agua Zarca project.
Central America
Nicaragua’s family confinement program: 7.18% of released prisoners reoffend
Nicaraguan authorities have released a total of 48,964 common prisoners under the family confinement regime over the past ten years, with 7.18% of them reoffending by committing at least one crime, according to the country’s vice president, Rosario Murillo.
Murillo, who is also the wife of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and appointed “co-president” in a reform to the Constitution, stated through official media that “7.18% are individuals who have reoffended in criminal activity from 2015 to today, February 14, 2025.”
This means that 3,515 out of the 48,964 common prisoners with final sentences who have been granted family confinement privileges have returned to criminal activity, according to the report.
The early release of common prisoners has faced criticism, particularly from feminist organizations, who argue that these benefits have contributed to an increase in femicides and general crime in Nicaragua.
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