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Caribbean & Central America - June 2018 (ISSN 1741-4458)
PANAMA: Varela makes constitutional move
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. That didn’t happen: but now, as the government completes its fourth year in office, and with just under a year to go before the May 2019 general election, Varela has re-opened the whole controversial subject. He is now proposing that next May voters should elect a constituent assembly which would function alongside the next elected national assembly. Opposition parties are deeply suspicious of the move.
- Introduction
- GUATEMALA: A month of skirmishes
- PANAMA: Varela makes constitutional move
- PANAMA: Poverty continues to pervade Panama’s indigenous population
- NICARAGUA: Nicaragua’s inter-oceanic canal flounders as China turns its attention to Panama
- HONDURAS: The battle for the MACCIH
- BARBADOS: BLP returns in a landslide
- CARIBBEAN POINTERS
- Economic Highlights