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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 19 January 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 18 January Panama’s economy & finance ministry (MEF) presented a legislative bill before the national assembly which calls for tax fraud to be included in the criminal code.... Read More
El Salvador: The Guatemala-based think tank Central American institute of fiscal studies (Icefi) has criticised El Salvador’s approved state budget for 2018, warning it cuts spending for strategic sectors such as education and health, and that it is “opaque”.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
“A national emergency”.... Read More
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández appealed to the political opposition this week to engage in “a sincere and elevated dialogue”.... Read More
Costa Rica closed 2017 with a record 603 homicides (12 per 100,000 inhabitants), up from 579 in 2016, according to figures released by the judicial investigation police (OIJ).... Read More
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