LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 14 March 2019

On 13 March the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega and the Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia (ACJD) opposition grouping announced the resumption of talks aimed at finding a solution to the political crisis which began mid-April 2018, stemming from the government’s deadly crackdown on its opponents.... Read More

* The constitutional chamber (SC) of El Salvador’s supreme court (CSJ) has temporarily suspended the cancellation of El Salvador’s free trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan, accepting an injunction from El Salvador’s sugar association which argued that the move jeopardised the industry’s property rights and legal security, among other things.... Read More

In this March edition of Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America, we begin by looking at El Salvador.... Read More

In his victory speech on election night (3 February) Nayib Bukele told his ecstatic supporters that the country had “turned the page on the post-war period” and should now look to the future, not the past.... Read More

Guatemala has been temporarily suspended from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global lobby group which aims to set an international standard for the good governance of oil, gas, and mineral resources.... Read More

Although, strictly speaking, no country in Central America has a media monopoly in the sense of a single corporation owning all media outlets, concentration remains high.... Read More

Cuba’s new charter was a missed opportunity for bolder reforms and will satisfy neither the urgent need for faster growth nor the growing demand for some political opening beyond the tight strictures of the one-party Communist state.... Read More

There could hardly be a greater contrast between the growing certainty over Guyana’s transformative oil discoveries and the country’s political uncertainties with the constitutionally mandated deadline for a general election almost certain to be missed by many months.... Read More

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been visiting Barbados again.... Read More

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been praising the policies adopted by Grenada since it was devastated by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.... Read More

*** CARICOM AND OAS STILL AT ODDS.... Read More

COSTA RICA | Exports up.... Read More