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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 24 May 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 23 May, a congress committee agreed to postpone discussion on a draft bill which human rights groups warn would offer impunity for crimes committed during El Salvador’s civil war (1980-1992).... Read More
* Panama’s national statistics institute (INEC) has released new figures which show Panama’s GDP grew 3.41% from January-March 2019 compared with the same period in 2018.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Guatemala’s constitutional court (CC) last week definitively barred two of the three main presidential candidates from competing in the general election on 16 June: Thelma Aldana, a former attorney general (2014-2018) who was running for the leftist opposition Movimiento Semilla, and Zury Ríos, the daughter of Guatemala’s late dictator Efraín Ríos Montt (1982-1983) of the ultra-right-wing opposition Valor.... Read More
“A golden opportunity which must be seized now”.... Read More
Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel and the leader of the Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC), Raúl Castro, met Venezuela’s foreign minister, Jorge Arreaza, in Havana on 21 May.... Read More
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