LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 19 April 2018

Development: On 18 April Cuba’s national assembly (ANPP) approved the candidacy of Vice President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel as the new president of Cuba to replace Raúl Castro.... Read More

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A regional policymaking institution, the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (Icefi), last year warned that, with huge development challenges such as poverty, income inequality and high violence and crime rates, it will be extremely difficult for Central American countries to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 without addressing its chronic fiscal problems and increasing public spending.... Read More

Faced with huge development challenges such as poverty, income inequality and high violence and crime rates, it will be extremely difficult for Central American countries to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 without addressing its chronic fiscal problems and increasing public spending, warned the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (Icefi), a regional policymaking institution, in an April 2017 report.... Read More

During the US 2016 presidential campaign and since President Donald Trump’s victory, Mexico and Central American nations, particularly the so-called Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras), have been looking northward with some trepidation.... Read More

After the early March local and legislative elections, one interpretation of Salvadorean politics is that the two-party system is now in crisis, perhaps even in its death-throes.... Read More

On 13 and 14 March Panama’s second-largest city, Colón, saw a combination of widespread peaceful protests coupled with violent clashes.... Read More

The relationship between the Honduran executive and congress in the complex fight against corruption in the country remains under scrutiny.... Read More

President Raúl Castro will bequeath to his successor – due to be appointed on 19 April (as we go to press) – the most difficult task of Cuba’s economic reform process: currency reunification.... Read More

Venezuela is disputing the validity of the referral of its territorial dispute with Guyana to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).... Read More

Both Grenada and Antigua & Barbuda held elections in March, and both returned the incumbents with decisive majorities, or a (second) clean sweep in the case of Grenada.... Read More

*** IMF POINTS TO BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR BAHAMAS.... Read More

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | First Chinese-owned company opens.... Read More