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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 05 April 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 4 April, civil-society groups questioned the previous day’s election by the 158-member unicameral legislature of Edwin Salazar as the country’s new comptroller general for a four-year term.... Read More
* El Salvador’s President Salvador Sánchez Cerén held a meeting with Seynabou Sakho, the director of the World Bank (WB) for Central America, in which they discussed a financing project that would inject US$200m into Salvadoran cities to promote growth and employment at a local level.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
The Central American migrant crisis shot to prominence again this week with US President Donald Trump threatening to close the shared border with Mexico unless the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador make a concerted effort to address the issue.... Read More
President Jovenel Moïse has named culture & communication (MCC) minister Jean Michel Lapin as Haiti’s new interim prime minister following the departure of Jean Henry Céant after losing a vote of no confidence [WR-19-11].... Read More
Guyana’s warring political parties are heading for a showdown at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as they battle for power at a time when the country has come into game-changing oil wealth.... Read More
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