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- Tropical storm Agatha leaves more than 170 dead and 100 missing in Central America
- The rainy season has only just begun in Central America, but tropical storm Agatha has already lashed Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
- Hardest hit: El Salvador
- “Healthy wells,” tightly sealed to keep out contamination after floods, provide clean drinking and cooking water for families.
- The tipping point in Guatemala
- In Baja Verapaz Oxfam and local partners are helping small farmers cope with a food crisis that could have been prevented.
- I feel my heart beating
- Storm in El Salvador rivals Hurricane Mitch in intensity
- A perfect storm is driving millions into poverty
- More than one billion people now face chronic hunger—and more could join their ranks if we don't act now. With increasing food prices, droughts and floods, and ...
- Preparedness helps Oxfam respond quickly to Salvador emergency
- Oxfam and our local partners began helping communities prepare long before devastating floods and landslides.
- The faces of Hurricane Ida
- Survivors of the flooding in El Salvador, brought by Hurricane Ida, recount their escapes and face their losses.
- Verapaz: four days after the landslide
- With her camera, Oxfam America's Tjarda Muller records the devastation in one community in El Salvador following torrential rains.
- El Salvador: "We spent the whole day evacuating people."
- "People had to go up on the roofs, or they hung from the walls of houses that have broken glass. There were so many injured people." This is the testimony of ...
- Food crisis in Guatemala
- Oxfam and local partners help farmers cope with crop failures, food shortages.
- Stop Violence Against Women
- Oxfam America’s Gender Violence Prevention campaign supports local upcoming artists while contributing to cultural change and new youth practices. Salvadoran ...
- Following the money in Latin America
- Where revenue from mining and oil comes from—and where it goes—can be hard to determine in Latin America.
- CIFCA mission confirms human rights violations in Honduras
- An international human rights mission that traveled to Honduras confirmed violations of human rights after the coup d'état that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
- Crisis in Honduras: Oxfam expresses concerns
- Following the arrest and expulsion of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on June 29, Oxfam is closely following events in the country.
- Oxfam: More than 3 million face death while Berlusconi and the G8 fiddle
- Mugged: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup
- In this report, Oxfam calls for the major players in the coffee industry to support a Coffee Rescue Plan to overcome the current crisis and create a more ...
- In El Salvador, USAID program grows a new generation of rural entrepreneurs
- By building on local knowledge—and adapting to local conditions—USAID and Fintrac help farming communities overcome poverty.
- Oxfam in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- All across this diverse and beautiful territory, new faces of leadership are emerging. Women, rural communities, and small farmers are adding their voices to ...
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2008
- Raising a generation without fear
- Open the Books on Corruption
- From Oxfam America partner Publish What You Pay, calling for transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries and asking Congress to introduce the Extractive ...
- Farmers in the US speak out
- Farmers in the US and Central America had similar concerns about DR-CAFTA.
- Defending the people, and Lake Izabal
- Despite threats to her life, Eloyda Mejía raises awareness about industrial mining near a beautiful lake in eastern Guatemala.
- Environmental activists receive death threats
- In Guatemala, a deep-rooted culture of violence limits debate about mining and the environment.
- "We are united"
- An indigenous Q'eq'chi community in Guatemala struggles to defend its agricultural land.
- From Cancun to Miami
- The FTAA Threat to Development in the Hemisphere
- Grounds for Change
- Market volatility and declining terms of trade, along with inadequate access to infrastructure, financial resources, and market information, put sustainable ...
- Field Report from El Salvador
- Smart Development in Practice Series
- Rodolfo Pocop: an indigenous perspective on mining in Guatemala
- New economic realities in Central America reveal strong concerns about the future of Mayan culture.
- Early rains reveal vulnerability of many communities in El Salvador
- The rainy season has only just begun and El Salvador is already mourning its first landslide victims.
- Congressional Testimony: The Implementation of DR-CAFTA
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