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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 22 June 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 21 June, Nayib Bukele announced that he is in the process of finalising “a strategic alliance” with the left-wing Cambio Democrático (CD) party to allow him to compete in El Salvador’s presidential election in February 2019.... Read More
Costa Rica: Costa Rica’s finance ministry has announced that during the first five months for 2018 the fiscal deficit rose to 2.6% of GDP (or US$1.57bn), higher than the 2.2% of GDP registered during the same period in 2017.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Masaya city, the capital of the eponymous department and historically a bastion of support for the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), this week declared that it no longer recognised the leadership of President Daniel Ortega.... Read More
The governments of Panama and China last week officially launched negotiations in Beijing for a free trade agreement (FTA), a year after the two forged diplomatic ties, following Panama’s decision to break with Taiwan.... Read More
President Juan Orlando Hernández and the ruling Partido Nacional (PN) are on the defensive over alleged corruption.... Read More
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