LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 9 May 2019

On 8 May, the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega and the Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia (ACJD) opposition grouping failed to reach an agreement regarding the relaunch of talks aimed at finding a solution to the crisis stemming from the government’s crackdown on its opponents which began in April 2018.... Read More

* Melvin Redondo, the Secretary-General of the secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (Sieca), has announced that, subsequent to the 2012 European Union-Central America Association Agreement, as of 7 May the Central American Single Declaration form (Duca) will replace the Central American Single Customs Form (Fauca) and the Single Declaration of Goods for the International Terrestrial Customs Transit (DUT) and will be used as a Goods Declaration (DM) by the states that are party to the general treaty of Central American economic integration.... Read More