Caribbean & Central America - June 2018 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Famously, Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales won the 2015 presidential elections on the slogan that he was neither corrupt not a thief (ni corrupto ni ladrón).... Read More

Famously, Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales won the 2015 presidential election on the slogan that he was neither corrupt not a thief (ni corrupto ni ladrón).... Read More

In his successful campaign to win the May 2014 presidential elections President Juan Carlos Varela promised to reform the Panamanian constitution within the first two years of his five-year term in office.... Read More

Panama may have one of the strongest economies in Latin America, with 5.5% growth in 2017, expected to rise this year and through to 2019, but the country’s indigenous communities continue to be crippled by inequality and poverty.... Read More

In 2013, the decision by the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega to award the Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development (HKND) Group a build-operate contract for a 171-mile canal that would span the country, linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, made headlines due to the massive scale of the project and the fact that it presaged greater Chinese involvement in Central America.... Read More

In an important decision for the battle against corruption in Honduras, the constitutional chamber of the Honduran supreme court on 30 May ruled unanimously that the convention founding the Organisation of American States (OAS)-sponsored Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH), was constitutional.... Read More

The economy and precedent were always against the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) winning a third consecutive term in power (a feat achieved only once in post-independence Barbados, by the Barbados Labour Party – BLP – in 2003), but the electorate’s verdict on the DLP’s second term was even more brutal than most observers had imagined it would be.... Read More

*** GOOD GROWTH FOR GRENADA.... Read More

El Salvador/Cuba: On 21 May El Salvador’s Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén and its Cuban counterpart led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel inked a document expanding a bilateral partial scope trade agreement (AAP), which entered into force in 2012.... Read More