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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 22 October 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 20 October the presidents of Guatemala and Honduras, Jimmy Morales and Juan Orlando Hernández respectively, held a meeting in which they launched an initiative, ‘Plan Retorno Seguro’ ('Plan Safe Return'), as part of efforts to halt the caravan of Hondurans making their way to the US.... Read More
* The Dominican Republic (DR)’s Central Bank (BCRD) has released figures which show that tourism revenue in 2017 totalled US$7.177bn, equal to 38% of total exports of goods and services, while 6.19m people visited the country that year.... Read More
Development: On 21 October, Mexico’s interior ministry said that over three days it had received 1,028 asylum requests from Central Americans arriving at the border as part of the migrant caravan that is making its way to the US from Honduras.... Read More
From Latin American Security & Strategic Review
In recent years, crime rates have been rising in a number of key countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).... Read More
Earlier this month El Salvador’s national police (PNC) director Howard Cotto announced a 57% drop in homicides in September 2018 compared with the same month in 2017 (from 442 to 192).... Read More
On 10 October, forces from the Regional Security System (RSS) began to arrive in St Kitts & Nevis at the invitation of Prime Minister Timothy Harris.... Read More
TRINIDAD | Fretting over Venezuelan incursions.... Read More
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