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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 27 July 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 26 July, Nayib Bukele, the popular businessman-turned-politician and presidential candidate of the centre-left Cambio Democrático (CD) party in El Salvador’s February 2019 presidential election, announced that he will run instead as the presidential candidate of the centre-right opposition Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional (Gana) party.... Read More
Panama: Finance & Economy Minister Gustavo Valderrama has formally presented the executive’s 2019 draft budget to the national assembly for debate.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
“Allies of coup mongers.” This is how President Daniel Ortega referred to Nicaragua’s Catholic Church in a speech held to mark the 19 July anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship (1936-1979) which singled out the Church for particular criticism.... Read More
The Organization of American States (OAS)-sponsored Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (Maccih) and US embassy in Tegucigalpa this week hailed progress with regard to the high-profile “Pandora Case” – a major corruption investigation unveiled last month which implicates the ruling Partido Nacional (PN) of President Juan Orlando Hernández and traditional opposition Partido Liberal (PL) [WR-18-24].... Read More
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