LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 08 March 2019

On 7 March, the Russian government expressed its profound concern about the increased pressure being brought to bear on Cuba by the US.... Read More

* Costa Rica’s unicameral national congress has ratified a free trade agreement (FTA) that was signed between Central American countries and South Korea last year.... Read More

President Danilo Medina delivered his annual state-of-the-nation address to the legislative assembly on 27 February, Dominican independence day.... Read More

The government led by President Daniel Ortega and the opposition Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia (ACJD) will embark on a fresh dialogue process to try and draw an end to a protracted political crisis.... Read More

The outgoing left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) has announced that it will stage internal elections on 16 June, two weeks after President-elect Nayib Bukele takes office as part of a renewal process after the party’s humbling defeat in last month’s presidential elections.... Read More

Exactly three years after the notorious murder of Honduran environmentalist and indigenous activist Berta Cáceres, a trial is set to begin into irregularities surrounding the award of a contract to build the Agua Zarca dam and hydroelectric project she had protested against.... Read More

Panama’s electoral campaign formally began on 4 March.... Read More

COSTA RICA | Tax amnesty success.... Read More

Cuba’s foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez accused the US government this week of making “an unacceptable threat against the world”.... Read More