LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 29 October 2019

On 28 October, 27 national deputies representing the ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) resigned from the party, alleging electoral fraud in the primary elections earlier this month in which former president Leonel Fernández (1996-2000; 2004-2012) was narrowly defeated by former public works minister Gonzalo Castillo, who had the backing of President Danilo Medina.... Read More

* An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation has arrived in Honduras to conduct the first revision of the US$311m Stand-by Arrangement and Standby Credit Facility it approved in July and to evaluate the electrical system reforms in the country.... Read More