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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 20 September 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 19 September Nicaragua's supreme court (CSJ) suspended the licence for six months of María Oviedo, a prominent human rights lawyer who worked for the human rights NGO Comisión Permanente de Derechos Humanos (CPDH).... Read More
* Panama’s economy & finance minister Jorge Almengor said that the executive has authorised a US$5bn increase in the amount of debt it can issue before the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Marking his first 100 days in office on 8 September El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele highlighted various achievements – the recent drop in homicides which he attributes to his security plan ‘Plan Control Territorial’ [WR-19-35]; a national health plan; and the establishment of a new international mechanism to fight impunity and corruption (Cicies).... Read More
Guatemala’s President-elect Alejandro Giammattei has paid his first visit to the US since winning the August run-off election.... Read More
Cuba is not facing a second ‘Special Period’, President Miguel Díaz-Canel insisted during two televised appearances on 10 and 11 September to announce the most serious fuel crisis in the country since the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s.... Read More
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