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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 07 February 2020
From LatinNews Daily
On 6 February Arístides Valencia, a former interior minister (2014-2019) under the previous opposition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) government, appeared in court, where he was formally charged with electoral fraud and illicit association in relation to the 2014 electoral process.... Read More
* Costa Rica’s national statistics institute (Inec) has released new figures which show that the national unemployment rate was 12.4% in the fourth quarter of 2019, unchanged compared with the same quarter the previous year.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Since announcing at the start of the year that the terms of representatives of Haiti’s entire lower chamber and two-thirds of the senate had expired (meaning he would effectively rule by decree [WR-20-02] as of 13 January), President Jovenel Moïse has shown few signs that he is seeking to address the key issue of staging elections, which were scheduled for October 2019.... Read More
In what was the first electoral test for the ruling centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) since President Carlos Alvarado assumed power in May 2018, municipal elections took place on 2 February with 82 mayoralties up for grabs.... Read More
HONDURAS | Latest poverty figures.... Read More
Guatemala’s new President Alejandro Giammattei met his Salvadorean peer, Nayib Bukele, in El Salvador last week.... Read More
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