LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 27 June 2018

Development: On 26 June, Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado, who took office on 8 May for a four-year term, issued a decree establishing seven strategic priority areas for his centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) government to address.... Read More

Nicaragua: Nicaragua’s state-owned oil company, Empresa Nicaragüense de Petróleo (Petronic), has announced that Norwegian oil firm Statoil (which rebranded as Equinor on 15 May) hopes to confirm the existence of 300m “recoverable” barrels of oil off the country’s Pacific coast.... Read More

One way of judging the safety of a place is to ask the local residents how comfortable they feel about going out for a walk at night on their own.... Read More

“A milestone judgement for Guatemala.” This is how United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein described the ruling issued unanimously on 23 May by the High Risk “C” Tribunal in Guatemala against four high-ranking former military officials for crimes against humanity, aggravated sexual violence, and enforced disappearance during the 1960-1996 civil war.... Read More

After three months under special security measures, residents of Jamaica’s St Catherine North Police Division appear to be ambivalent about the long-term benefits of the measures.... Read More

GUATEMALA/HONDURAS | Discovery of coca plantations.... Read More