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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 07 June 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 6 June, the Universidad Centroamericana's human rights institute (Idhuca) expressed concern about the appointment of Mauricio Arriaza Chicas as El Salvador’s new police chief (PNC).... Read More
* The Central American bank for economic integration (BCIE) and Costa Rica’s railway institute (Incofer) have awarded a US$680,000 contract to a Spanish-Mexican consortium AudingIntraesa-Audingmex to explore the technical, economic, social, and environmental feasibility of the Limón electric freight train project (TELCA).... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
In just one day and in one fell swoop Colombia’s supreme court (CSJ) and constitutional court (CC) delivered blows to the political authority of President Iván Duque and restored a significant amount of confidence in the ailing peace deal signed with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) in 2016.... Read More
“We are thinking big, we are going to leave a legacy for the Salvadorean people that history will not erase,” President Nayib Bukele said during his investiture on 1 June.... Read More
President Juan Orlando Hernández has announced the definitive repeal of two decrees approved in late April which the platform for the defence of health and education (PDSE), grouping teachers and doctors’ unions, warned would result in the privatisation of both sectors as well as layoffs [WR-19-17].... Read More
Panama’s congressional economy & finance commission rejected a legislative initiative (766) on 29 May regarding a contract between the state and Minera Panamá, the local subsidiary of Canada’s First Quantum Minerals Ltd.... Read More
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