LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 21 February 2020

The Costa Rican government led by President Carlos Alvarado last week revealed a comprehensive plan aimed at tackling the country’s rising fiscal deficit.... Read More

“These are difficult days in which you have decided to support and protect the Salvadorean people when we know that the majority of politicians are protecting the criminals; days in which we know that deputies and former ministers financed the criminals that you are going to have to pursue and capture,” President Bukele said, addressing the soldiers during a ceremony in front of the old national palace in San Salvador on 18 February.... Read More

Protesters gathered outside the JCE in a heavy downpour to demonstrate against the suspension of the municipal elections.... Read More

Approved on 11 February, Ley 5257 was first presented in 2017 as part of a series of reforms to the penal code.... Read More

On 20 February Nicaragua’s national police (PNN) issued a statement denying that an armed attack took place four days earlier against the Mískitu indigenous community carried out by settlers from other regions of Nicaragua known as ‘colonos’, who invade indigenous land for illegal logging and cattle-raising.... Read More

* Following a visit to Panama, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that after a temporary slowdown in 2018-2019, Panama’s economy is “poised for a rebound in 2020 and will remain among the most dynamic in Latin America”.... Read More