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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 08 November 2018
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Development: On 7 November Guatemala’s electoral court (TSE) registered a new political party, Movimiento para la Liberación de los Pueblos (MLP), ahead of the June 2019 general elections.... Read More
* El Salvador’s President Salvador Sánchez Cerén has revealed that China has authorised a US$150m donation over a three-year period for projects in the sectors of health, education, technology, water supply, and disaster prevention & mitigation.... Read More
From Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America
Despite a dip this year, Panama’s economic growth rate is expected to roar back as one of the fastest in Latin America in 2019.... Read More
Despite a dip this year, Panama’s economic growth rate is expected to roar back as one of the fastest in Latin America in 2019.... Read More
How El Salvador should manage its scarce water supplies is turning into a potentially big electoral issue (presidential elections are due in February 2019).... Read More
The contest for diplomatic recognition between China and Taiwan continues to be one of modern diplomacy’s most interesting oddities.... Read More
Almost 62,000 undocumented Hondurans have been deported out of the US to date this year, a sharp increase of 55% year on year.... Read More
With US-Cuba relations at a low point, President Miguel Díaz-Canel is seeking to shore up ties elsewhere, with plans to visit Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam and Laos in early November on his major first tour abroad.... Read More
President Danilo Medina has promulgated the Dominican Republic’s (DR) first ever political parties’ law (ley 33-18) after 15 years of debate.... Read More
President Jovenel Moïse ran as a candidate for rural people who would boost development using his experience as an entrepreneurial banana exporter.... Read More
The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) Regional Economic Outlook talks of a general improvement in the economic prospects for the Caribbean “supported by higher US and global growth”.... Read More
*** BAHAMAS APPROVES DISNEY DEVELOPMENT.... Read More
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- New political party registers ahead of Guatemala 2019 election
- In brief: El Salvador
- Introduction
- PANAMA: A spanner in the mining works?
- EL SALVADOR: Water trouble boiling up
- REGION: Understanding Central America’s role in the China-Taiwan battle for allies
- HONDURAS: US deportations soar, even as Caravan heads north
- CUBA: Díaz-Canel gets his wings
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Political parties’ law promulgated
- HAITI: Food security concerns persist
- REGION: A patchy recovery for most, but Guyana “hits the jackpot”
- CARIBBEAN POINTERS
- Economic Highlights