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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 23 September 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 20 September the Acting Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kevin McAleenan signed a migration agreement with El Salvador’s foreign minister Alexandra Hill.... Read More
* The Chamber of Commerce in Jerusalem and the Chambers of Agriculture, Commerce and Industry in Guatemala signed an agreement to strengthen trade exchanges.... Read More
From Latin American Economy & Business
Set against the backdrop of a slowing global economy and concentrated flows into the region, in August the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac) released its annual report into the state of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region in 2018, highlighting a number of patterns and emerging trends.... Read More
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In the context of a growth in extractive and energy projects in Central America which have implications for indigenous territory, attacks on defenders of land, environmental and indigenous peoples’ rights have drastically increased in recent years, and new legislation to protect them is becoming key to overcoming the level of impunity under which this violence occurs.... Read More
In late July the Guatemala-based think tank Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies (Icefi) issued a report decrying the poor performance of tax revenue accumulation across the region in the first half of 2019.... Read More
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