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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 05 July 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 4 July, El Salvador’s 84-member unicameral national legislature approved changes to the budget which reassigns US$30.98m to security, including supporting the armed forces (FAES) in undertaking citizen security tasks.... Read More
* El Salvador’s central bank (BCR) has released new figures which show that in the first quarter of 2019 foreign direct investment (FDI) to El Salvador reached US$177.3m, with a majority of investment going towards El Salvador’s industry, transport, and financial services.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
“No-one is untouchable.” This was one of the promises made by Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo upon taking office for a five-year term on 1 July, signalling a return to power for the Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD) after a decade.... Read More
Two weeks on from the general election on 16 June [WR-19-24], Julio Solórzano, the president of the electoral authority (TSE), has confirmed that the 11 August run-off will take place between former First Lady Sandra Torres (2008-2012) of the opposition Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE) and Alejandro Giammattei of the right-wing Vamos party.... Read More
When protesting fishermen threw a small stick of dynamite at the presidential palace in San José last week, Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado would not have known it was only a foretaste of what was to come.... Read More
Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced last week that his government had approved a series of measures as part of a new economic strategy.... Read More
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