LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 21 October 2019

On 18 October, a jury in a US court convicted Juan Antonio ‘Tony’ Hernández, the brother of Hondruas's President Juan Orlando Hernández and a former national legislator for the ruling Partido Nacional (PN), on four counts including conspiring to import cocaine into the US.... Read More

* Costa Rica’s national statistics institute (Inec) has released its national household survey which shows that, in 2019, 20.98% of the country’s households were living in poverty, a slight decline on the 21.06% reported in 2018.... Read More