LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 19 October 2018

Development: On 18 October Guatemala’s 158-member unicameral national legislature approved changes to the criminal code.... Read More

* Costa Rica’s central bank (BCCR) has issued a statement expressing support for the government’s proposed fiscal reform initiative, approved by the 57-member unicameral national legislature on 5 October, that seeks to address the country’s widening fiscal deficit, which closed at 6.2% of GDP in 2017.... Read More

Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, who was assassinated in 1980 for daring to condemn state-sponsored violence in El Salvador, and order soldiers not to kill innocent civilians, was canonised on 14 October.... Read More

“A monologue not a dialogue.” This was one of the reasons given by the traditional opposition Partido Liberal (PL) for its decision to suspend participation in the talks brokered by the United Nations (UN), which began at the end of August, aimed at addressing the post-electoral crisis in Honduras.... Read More

Last week José Domingo Arias, who served as housing minister under President Ricardo Martinelli (Cambio Democrático, 2009-2014), became the latest presidential contender to be confirmed ahead of next May’s general election.... Read More