LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 20 November 2018

Development: On 19 November the opposition Partido Liberal Constitucionalista (PLC) presented its candidates for the March 2019 regional elections scheduled for Nicaragua’s North Atlantic Autonomous Region (Raan) and South Atlantic Autonomous Region (Raas) on the remote, largely indigenous, Caribbean coast.... Read More

* Costa Rica’s finance ministry has announced that it has awarded a contract to two companies, worth US$100m to each company, to place treasury bonds to be carried out between 22 November and 12 December.... Read More

Following the US mid-term elections on 6 November president Donald Trump has lost his Republican majority in the chamber of deputies but increased his hold on the senate.... Read More

Voters in Mexico and Brazil, the two largest countries in Latin America, have chosen populist outsiders (of the Left and of the Right, respectively) to be their new presidents.... Read More

The UN-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala – Cicig) presented its annual report on 9 November amid a continuing stand-off with the government of President Jimmy Morales.... Read More

Last month the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) warned of an increase in acts of violence and repression to deter public demonstrations in Nicaragua.... Read More

Honduras is posting decent economic growth and stable macro-economic indicators, yet is making next to no social progress.... Read More

Trinidad & Tobago has made some progress on fighting corruption.... Read More

BAHAMAS | More required on money-laundering.... Read More