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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 30 November 2018
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Development: On 29 November representatives from Panama’s special anti-corruption prosecutor’s office announced that the investigation into the corruption case involving bribes paid to local officials from Brazilian construction and engineering firm Odebrecht was 80% complete.... Read More
* Nicaragua’s central bank (BCN) has released its latest figures on remittances which show that these reached US$128.9m in October 2018, up 8.8% year-on-year.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Pedro Sánchez last week became the Spanish first prime minister to visit Cuba since 1986.... Read More
It has been a tumultuous week for Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández.... Read More
Nicaragua’s opposition parties have all announced their intention of running in the March 2019 regional elections scheduled for the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (Raan) and South Atlantic Autonomous Region (Raas) on the remote, largely indigenous, Caribbean coast.... Read More
After nearly four months of delay, El Salvador’s 84-member legislature has elected four new magistrates for the five-member constitutional chamber (SC) of the supreme court (CSJ), along with one new magistrate to the civil chamber, for nine-year terms.... Read More
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