LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 21 September 2018

Development: On 20 September thousands of people took to the streets in Guatemala’s capital, Guatemala City, and other departments calling for President Jimmy Morales to step down.... Read More

* The head of Nicaragua’s chamber of tourism (Canatur), Lucy Valenti, has told reporters that the country has lost some US$400m in tourism revenue as a result of the crisis caused by the government crackdown on protesters which began in mid-April.... Read More

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales inaugurated a state-of-the-art new headquarters for the parliament of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) on the outskirts of the central city of Cochabamba on 12 September.... Read More

Back in August 2017 President Jimmy Morales said that he would respect any legal resolutions issued by the constitutional court (CC) – remarks which followed its ruling overturning his order to expel the head of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig), Iván Velásquez, after the latter first called for him to be investigated for corruption.... Read More

Costa Rica’s largest trade union, Asociación Nacional de Empleados Públicos y Privados (Anep), has begun an indefinite strike against the fiscal reform proposed by the centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) government led by President Carlos Alvarado – a major priority given the country’s spiralling fiscal deficit, which closed at 6.2% of GDP in 2017.... Read More