LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 27 March 2018

Development: On 26 March, Costa Rica’s electoral authority (TSE) ordered the conservative Partido Restauración Nacional (PRN), the party of presidential run-off candidate Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz, to refrain from invoking religious motifs and asking religious leaders for economic support ahead of the 1 April second-round election.... Read More

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The Mexican human rights lobby Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y Justicia Penal (CCSPJP) has launched another edition of what can be described as its dark best-seller – the annual ranking of the world’s 50 most murderous cities.... Read More

An optimist might conclude that food security must be a relatively low priority issue for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) right now, compared, for example, with other major problems such as crime and corruption.... Read More

On 13 March Rex Tillerson was unceremoniously dismissed as US secretary of state, with President Donald Trump appointing CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace him.... Read More

Millions of Latin Americans marched for International Women’s Day on 8 March.... 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

Mexico has been trying to do it for years, but hasn’t managed.... Read More

On 18 March, Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that a second district was to be subject to special security measures, the St Catherine North Police Division.... Read More

A new Anti-Gang Bill, already passed by the House of Representatives, reached the Senate in the third week of march.... Read More