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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 03 May 2019
In brief: Guatemala
* President Jimmy Morales has pledged to boost ties with Taiwan during a five day visit to the country which began on 29 April where he met his peer Tsai Ing-wen. One area in which the two agreed to strengthen cooperation was coffee. According to figures from the Guatemalan government, Guatemala exported 49,900 sacks (each 60kg) of coffee in 2018, worth US$10.6m, up from 19,000 bags worth US$5.6m in 2011. As well as coffee, the two leaders announced that they would discuss 12 projects that Taiwan is currently carrying out in Guatemala, in the areas of health, road infrastructure, and economic development. These include the expansion of the CA-9 highway, maternal neonatal health, industrialisation of bamboo, and institutional strengthening projects for agro-business. Guatemala and Taiwan established ties November 1960. In Central America, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala continue to have diplomatic links with Taiwan while Costa Rica, Panama, and El Salvador have severed them in favour of mainland China.
