LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 28 November 2018

* Costa Rica’s unicameral national legislature has approved the 2019 draft state budget, for a total of C10.9trn (US$18bn). Approved by 40 legislators (with eight voting against), the budget includes various spending cuts, including a reduction of C10bn from the amount assigned to the national fund for higher education (FEES).

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