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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 14 February 2020

From Latin American Weekly Report
The image of heavily armed soldiers stationed inside and outside El Salvador’s legislative assembly on 9 February had a chilling effect on democrats across the region and beyond.... Read More
Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo last week was forced to replace his security and interior ministers, Rolando Mirones and Carlos Romero – the first cabinet members to step down since the Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD) government took office in July 2019.... Read More
Honduras’s first observatory of anti-corruption criminal policy (OPCA) was launched last week.... Read More
“A first step in restoring press freedom”.... Read More
“A worrying trend of increasing repression against political dissidents in Cuba.” This was the response of the European Parliament (EP) on 6 February to the detention of prominent Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas, a recipient of the EP’s 2010 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.... Read More
From LatinNews Daily
On 13 February two members of the military police (PMOP) and two other national police (PN) officers were murdered during an attack to free Alexander 'El Porkis' Mendoza, a leader of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), one of the two main street gangs in Honduras.... Read More
* Guatemala’s central bank (Banguat) has released latest trade figures which show exports in 2019 were US$11.18bn, up 2% compared with 2018 while imports were US$19.9bn, up from US$19.7bn in 2018.... Read More

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