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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 04 October 2018

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Development: On 3 October various legislators, the national ombudsman, and private sector lobbies condemned an attempted attack on Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado by protesters.... Read More
In a statement following a recent visit to Panama, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that “Despite temporarily slowing in 2018, the economy is poised for a rebound in the near term and will remain among the most dynamic in Latin America”.... Read More
From Latin American Regional Report: Central America & Caribbean
Great-power rivalry between China and the US is playing out in Central America.... Read More
Great-power rivalry between China and the US is playing out in Central America.... Read More
Although press coverage has been relatively limited, Central America is again suffering the effects of a serious drought – and it could get worse.... Read More
Environmental organisations have long warned that Central America’s growing reliance on imported fossil fuels comes at the price of rising greenhouse gas emissions, worsening air and water pollution, and significant health and societal costs.... Read More
Hundreds of Nicaraguans have been killed since the start of anti-government protests in the country in mid-April, the economy has ground to a halt, and tens of thousands have fled the country.... Read More
With a fiscal deficit this year forecast at 7.2% of GDP, the centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) administration of President Carlos Alvarado insists that tax reform is essential.... Read More
The Partido Liberal (PL), one of Honduras’s two traditional parties, has now spent nine years trying and failing to rediscover its moral and political compass after the June 2009 coup ejecting President Manuel Zelaya (PL, 2006-2009).... Read More
How things have changed.... Read More
The new Barbados Labour Party (BLP) government, which won all 30 seats in the 24 May general election to hand the premiership to its leader Mia Mottley, has begun the long painful fight to get the country’s finances back on an even keel.... Read More
*** IMF RUNS SLIDE RULE OVER DOMINICA.... Read More
PANAMA | First LNG plant in Central America.... Read More

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