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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 21 June 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 20 June Alejandro Giammattei of the right-wing Vamos party, a contender in Guatemala's August second-round presidential run-off, called for an external audit of the results from the 16 June general election.... Read More
* Panama’s economy & finance ministry (MEF) has released new figures which show that direct foreign investment (FDI) in the country came to a total of US$1.65bn in the first quarter of 2019, up 18.2% on the same period of 2018.... Read More
On 20 June, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele met in Tapachula, in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas, where they agreed on the launch of Mexico’s comprehensive development programme for Central America.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Sandra Torres of the opposition Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE) came first in a crowded field of candidates in Guatemala’s presidential elections on 16 June.... Read More
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is presiding over the most sweeping changes to the military top brass in a generation.... Read More
The 18 June deadline for the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government led by President Daniel Ortega to release all political prisoners has come and gone.... Read More
CUBA | Díaz-Canel calls for decentralised economy. Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced this week that from 2020 state workers would be at the forefront of their companies’ economic development.... Read More
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