This edition of the ENCA newsletter asks ‘where are workers rights?’ Banana Link reports on how Guatemala is the most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. Pablo Rojas in and Didier Leitón Valverde discuss how pesticides in Costa Rica’s banana zones are seriously affecting pregnant women. ENCA member Stephanie Williamson examines growing coffee without Endosulfan, and Amy Haworth Johns provides a summary update of progress on what may become one of the region’s biggest ever mega-projects, the Nicaraguan Canal.