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Caribbean & Central America - January 2024
Introduction
We begin the January 2024 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America in Costa Rica which finished 2023 with an unprecedented 907 homicides, up from 654 in 2022 – itself a record year. The surge in violence, which has been attributed to the growing presence of international drug trafficking organisations (DTOs), is piling pressure on the government led by President Rodrigo Chaves.
- Introduction
- COSTA RICA: Another record year of homicides
- HONDURAS: Questioning the impact of Castro's state of exception
- PANAMA: Environmentalists hail ruling against key mine
- GUATEMALA: New supreme court elected after long delay
- GUATEMALA: Regional court ruling will affect outlook for miners
- EL SALVADOR: Economic outlook improving as Bukele poised for re-election
- HAITI: A country seemingly without hope
- CUBA: Government rejects claims of economic “neoliberalism”
- JAMAICA: Debt burden slashed
- REGION: New focus on plastic waste
- POINTERS
- Economic Highlights