LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 09 October 2019

On 8 October, Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse named a special committee to “lead discussions” on how to find a “concerted solution to the crisis”.... Read More

* Honduras’s central bank (BCH) has released new figures which show year-on-year inflation was running at 4.42% in September 2019, similar to the 4.38% registered at the same point in 2018.... Read More

Corruption is a massive issue in Latin America and is responsible for many of the problems that continue to affect the continent.... Read More

While headlines have often focussed on external migration by nationals from Central America’s Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) mainly to Mexico and the US, at the end of August the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) launched a report first published last year on internal displacement in the Northern Triangle.... Read More

As the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis continues, millions of Venezuelans continue to flee the embattled country.... Read More

Suriname is something of a pariah state, what with its president Desi Bouterse subject to an international arrest warrant for a 2000 drug-trafficking conviction in the Netherlands (in absentia) and on trial for the murder of 15 opposition figures during his military dictatorship in 1982.... Read More

In the May issue Security & Strategic Review we looked at the split within the Caribbean Community (Caricom) over policy towards Venezuela, with some (namely Jamaica, The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and St Lucia) recognising Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó and the country’s legitimate president.... Read More