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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 12 March 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 11 March elections took place in Cuba to ratify two official sets of candidates for the 612-seat national assembly and provincial assemblies.... Read More
Nicaragua: Labour Minister Alba Luz Torres has announced a 10.4% increase to the minimum wage.... Read More
From Latin American Economy & Business
A recently published Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report[1] puts its finger on an economic conundrum affecting Central America and the Dominican Republic (known as the CADR sub-region).... Read More
A lot of comment in recent years has focused on the emergence of China as a major trade and investment player in Latin America, perhaps rivalling the traditional role played by the United States and Europe.... Read More
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Anti-corruption lobby group Transparency International (TI) published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on 21 February.... Read More
Outgoing Cuban President Raúl Castro told a visiting US congressional delegation in February that 2018 is the year in which the country’s two currencies will finally be unified.... Read More
The Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry held its Global Business Forum on Latin America in late February – a two-day annual conference first staged in 2016 that is designed to deepen commercial and investment ties between Dubai and Latin America.... Read More
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