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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 08 June 2018
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Development: On 7 June, Guatemala’s attorney general, María Consuelo Porras Argueta, announced the launch of an investigation into the authorities’ response to the eruption of the Fuego volcano on 3 June which has left 109 dead on the latest figures from the national institute of forensic sciences (Inacif).... Read More
Nicaragua: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced the imposition of US visa restrictions on “individuals responsible for human rights abuses or undermining democracy in Nicaragua”.... Read More
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President Salvador Sánchez Cerén delivered his fourth and final state-of-the-nation address on 1 June to the legislative assembly.... Read More
President Carlos Alvarado has hit the ground running in an attempt to resolve the most pressing challenge in Costa Rican politics since the turn of the millennium which has eluded four successive governments: the ever-widening fiscal deficit.... Read More
Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse has paid his first official visit to Taiwan since taking office in February 2017.... Read More
Cuba will soon have a new constitution to reflect “economic and social changes due to the passage of time”, President Miguel Díaz-Canel informed the national assembly in an extraordinary session on 2 June.... Read More
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