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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 26 July 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 25 July the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government led by Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega announced that four people had been arrested under new anti-terrorism legislation.... Read More
Panama: Panama’s housing minister Mario Etchelecu, in the post since President Juan Carlos Varela took office in July 2014, has resigned.... Read More
From Latin American Security & Strategic Review
US President Donald Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy, which led to the forcible separation of Central American families, was widely criticised both in the US itself and across Latin America.... Read More
You’d think they should both be on the same side.... Read More
The presence of paramilitaries on the streets of Nicaragua and their role in the brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters which began mid-April and has so far left over 350 people dead is fast attracting concerns (see our sister publication Latin American Weekly Report for more discussion of the crisis).... Read More
The Costa Rican NGO Fundación Neotrópica recently revealed the latest results of research which show that drug trafficking is a major driving factor in the deforestation of protected areas.... Read More
On 30 January this year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres referred the territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).... Read More
JAMAICA | St James state of emergency extended.... Read More
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- Fears borne out over Nicaragua’s new anti-terrorism law
- In brief: Panama
- Immigration struggle set to continue
- Guatemala: Morales fights the UN
- Nicaragua: Concerns rise over paramilitaries
- Region: Drug trafficking devastates protected areas in Central America
- Guyana: ICJ looking at question of jurisdiction
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