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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 20 July 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 19 July Honduras’s main private sector lobby, Consejo Hondureño de la Empresa Privada (Cohep), called on the Partido Nacional (PN) government led by President Juan Orlando Hernández and the transport sector to reach a deal to end a strike which began the previous day.... Read More
Panama: Panama’s economy & finance minister, Edya Varela de Chinchilla, has announced that the government led by President Juan Carlos Varela (her cousin) has withdrawn a request for exemption from the 71-member unicameral national legislature, which would permit it to increase the fiscal deficit by 1% of GDP in 2018.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
The foreign community is stepping up its rhetoric against the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) administration led by President Daniel Ortega in response to the ongoing crackdown on protesters, carried out by the national police (PNN) and pro-government paramilitaries, which began mid-April and has left 351 people dead on the latest (11 July) figures from local human rights NGO ANPDH.... Read More
The decision by the Parti Haïtien Tèt Kale (PHTK) government led by President Jovenel Moïse to increase fuel prices has sparked the biggest crisis since he took office in February 2017.... Read More
The constitutional chamber of the supreme court ordered the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) last week to cancel the legal registration of two small left-wing parties, the Partido Social Demócrata (PSD) and Cambio Democrático (CD).... Read More
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