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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 31 August 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 30 August hundreds of people took to the streets in Honduras’s capital, Tegucigalpa, demanding the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernández.... Read More
Panama: Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela has announced a deal between Metro de Panamá SA (a government agency) and the nominated subcontractor of the Panama metro Line 3 (comprising Japan’s Hitachi LTD, Mitsubishi Corporation, and Ansaldo STS, Hitachi’s Italian railway unit) for the purchase of all the equipment and wagons of Line 3 - an investment of US$839.6m which will improve urban mobility between Panama City and its western suburbs.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Costa Rica’s Vice President and Foreign Minister Epsy Campbell last week announced a new comprehensive migration plan.... Read More
For the second time in less than a year, Guatemala’s supreme court (CSJ) has approved a request put forward by the attorney general’s office (AG) and the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig), backed by the United Nations (UN), for President Jimmy Morales to be stripped of his immunity from prosecution to be investigated for illegal campaign financing involving his Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) party.... Read More
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