Caribbean & Central America - December 2019

Foreign ministers from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador met in September at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, to discuss the implementation of the Comprehensive Development Plan for Central America.... Read More

Foreign Ministers from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador met in September at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, to discuss the implementation of the Comprehensive Development Plan for Central America.... Read More

In December 2018, following years of budget deficits and an increase in public debt, the centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) government led by President Carlos Alvarado finally approved a fiscal reform law.... Read More

In late September, the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) published a report on the forced migration of Nicaraguans to Costa Rica as a result of the crackdown by the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega on its opponents which began in mid-April 2018.... Read More

The United Nations (UN) Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (Minujusth), which replaced the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (Minustah) when it ended its 13-year mandate in the country in October 2017, has left the country.... Read More

On 19 November, violence suddenly intruded into the run-up to Dominica’s 6 December general election.... Read More

Jamaica’s Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) terminated on 10 November with the IMF praising Jamaica for its “exemplary commitment” to the IMF programme for over six years and across two governments.... Read More

As Suriname heads into an election year, President Desi Bouterse has described his sentencing for 20 years imprisonment for murder as a “political game”.... Read More

The political atmosphere in Guyana has calmed somewhat since President David Granger announced 2 March as election day.... Read More

EL SALVADOR | FTA with South Korea to take effect in January.... Read More