Caribbean & Central America - November 2025

The first piece in this November 2025 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America begins in Honduras where the government led by President Xiomara Castro has come under fresh pressure as the country marked the one-year anniversary in September of the high-profile murder of Juan López, an environmental activist [SSR-25-11].... Read More

Honduras’ leftist Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) government led by President Xiomara Castro has come under fresh pressure as the country marked the one-year anniversary of the murder of environmental activist Juan López, who was shot dead by hitmen on 14 September 2024 in Tocoa municipality, Colón department [SSR-25-11], in northern Honduras, a region impacted by ongoing conflict over land reform and water resources.... Read More

On 24 September Guatemala’s left-of-centre government led by President Bernardo Arévalo presented a new report indicating that, through the work of the presidency’s secretariat of food and nutritional security (Sesan), there had been a 28% reduction in cumulative cases of acute malnutrition in 50 municipalities prioritised under a government protocol in the first eight months of 2025 compared with the same period in 2024.... Read More

On 10 September Panama assumed the pro tempore presidency of the council of ministers of the Central American environmental and development commission (CCAD), which is part of the Central American integration system (Sica).... Read More

On 2 October the Central America Tourism Agency (Cata), a non-profit international organisation that brings together tourism authorities from Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá and the Dominican Republic, launched a new marketing strategy that aims to boost visitor numbers by presenting the seven countries that it promotes as a single, connected destination.... Read More

On 9 October lawmakers unanimously approved a bill which ratifies an economic agreement between Panama and South American trading bloc Mercosur that will see Panama join as an associate member.... Read More

The number of Salvadoreans living in extreme poverty increased from 588,917 to 610,272 year-on-year from 2023-2024, equivalent to a 3.63% increase, according to statistics from the national bank (BCR).... Read More

There has been a flurry of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Haiti-related activity sparked in part by the looming, and certain to be missed, February deadline for the political transition, and in part by recognition that the situation in Haiti has, in the words of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, “reached a boiling point”.... Read More

When the Caribbean Community (Caricom) celebrated its 50th anniversary in July 2023, its then-chairman, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, remarked that “too many of our citizens are sceptical and some downright dismissive of the value and benefit of Caricom”.... Read More

Trinidad & Tobago’s finance minister, Davendranath Tancoo, part of the new United National Congress (UNC) government that took office in May, unveiled the fiscal 2026 budget in October, amid some criticism that revenue targets are over-optimistic.... Read More

Amid Haiti’s continuing political and security crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued what it calls an “encouraging” review of its staff-monitored programme (SMP) conducted with the country’s authorities.... Read More

It is now almost five years since the Caribbean Community (Caricom) endorsed the ‘Vision 25 by 2025’ programme (also known as 25x25): a commitment to reduce the region’s large food import bill by 25% by the year 2025.... Read More

PANAMA | Arbitration victory.... Read More