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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 30 May 2018
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Development: On 29 May, Colonel Carlos Geovanni Mejía Girón, a Guatemalan military attaché to Brazil, was arrested by the national police (PNC) at Guatemala City’s international airport, La Aurora, on accusations of embezzlement, illicit association and bribery.... Read More
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From Latin American Security & Strategic Review
At the end of April Brazil-based Igarapé Institute, a think tank, published a report on citizen security, Citizen Security in Latin America: Facts and Figures.... Read More
El Salvador’s 84-member unicameral national legislature last month approved a new decree which extends for another six months the ‘extraordinary measures’ first rolled out in April 2016 by the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén aimed at tackling crime.... Read More
In recent weeks the United Nations (UN)-backed anti-impunity commission in Guatemala (Cicig) and attorney general’s office (AG) have revealed the second and third phases of investigations into the conservative ruling Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) which has once again left President Jimmy Morales on the defensive.... Read More
The Oceans Beyond Piracy 2017 report has attracted a lot of attention in Latin America and the Caribbean because of its headline figure of a 163% increase in incidents of piracy over 2016.... Read More
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