Far Worse than Watergate, a new report by the Washington Office on Latin America, US Office on Colombia, Latin America Working Group, and the Center for International Policy, reveals that the Watergate-like scandal in Colombia is even more shocking than initially reported, with the presidential intellige

In a very significant victory, Johnson Controls Inc (JCI) agreed on May 30th to recognize a democratic union at one of its autoparts factories in Mexico and to end its relationship with a protection contract union about which the workers knew virtually nothing.

A volcanic eruption, gale force winds, and a major rainstorm has caused significant devastation across Guatemala.   Reports are tricking in as we go to press but hundreds of people have died or are missing.  Banana plantations have been hard hit, with (non-union) plantations on the Pacific coast damaged by winds and volcanic ash while tropical storm Agatha has flooded Del Monte

The Costa Rican government is attempting to break one of the most important democratic unions in the country in order accelerate privatization of two ports, being financed by a loan from the World Bank.   The state agency that administers the ports of Costa Rica has replaced the democratically-elected leadership of the union, SINTRAJAP, an affiliate of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), in an effort to turn it into an employer-run union.