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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 15 March 2018

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Development: On 14 March hundreds of employees and former workers at the Escobal silver mine, one of the largest in the world, took to the streets in Guatemala City outside the constitutional court (CC), calling on it to resolve an appeal which is keeping the project suspended.... Read More
Central America: Spain and the Central American integration system (Sica) -which comprises Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and the Dominican Republic- have renewed their cooperation agreement for 2018-2021.... Read More
From Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America
For roughly two years El Salvador’s government has been following a hard-line, militarised policy against gangs and organised crime.... Read More
For roughly two years the government of El Salvador has been following a hard-line, militarised policy against gangs and organised crime.... Read More
President Jimmy Morales launched the 2018-2032 national competitiveness policy (Política Nacional de Competividad – PNCom) on 12 February.... Read More
General elections will be held on 5 May 2019 – roughly 14 months away.... Read More
Costa Rica is currently facing one of its most divided periods in modern history.... Read More
Central America’s Northern Triangle, comprising El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, is the most violent region in the world (outside of war zones), an infamous distinction it has held for the past several years – as most recently highlighted by the Geneva-based NGO Small Arms Survey’s latest report, ‘Global Violent Deaths, 2017’.... Read More
With the reform process halted since August 2017, and the winds of change no longer blowing across the island since the détente with the US proved short-lived, Cuba once again finds itself at a difficult juncture.... Read More
In the January issue we wrote: “It would seem that, for Guyana, the good news keeps coming” [RC-18-01].... Read More
Belize held its triennial municipal elections on 7 March.... Read More
Prime Minister Gaston Browne, leader of the ruling Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) has called an election for 21 March, more than a year before the next election is constitutionally required.... Read More
*** RETURN TO GROWTH.... Read More
CENTRAL AMERICA | Trade deals with South Korea.... Read More

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