LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 16 October 2019

On 15 October, ‘Noé’, a high-ranking leader of Salvadorean gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), said that under a deal with the opposition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) party, prisoners at the Apanteos facility in Santa Ana department told their visitors to vote for the FMLN ahead of 2014 presidential and 2015 legislative and municipal elections.... Read More

* In a recent press conference, Wilfredo Cerrato, the president of the Honduran central bank (BCH), reported that foreign direct investment (FDI) in Honduras dropped 39.3% to US$242m in the first half of 2019 compared with US$411m in the same period in 2018.... Read More