Caribbean & Central America - February 2022

This February 2022 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America begins in Guatemala, which recently marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the peace accords that ended one of the longest armed conflicts in Latin America’s history (1960-1996).... Read More

Guatemala recently marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the peace accords which ended one of the longest armed conflicts in Latin America’s history (1960-1996), in which some 250,000 civilians were killed or disappeared.... Read More

Guatemala’s President Alejandro Giammattei used a speech on 14 January making the mid-way point of his four-year term to hail strong GDP growth and foreign direct investment (FDI) figures.... Read More

On 18 January Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo announced that a new contract had been agreed to reopen a controversial open-pit gold and copper mine.... Read More

At the end of December, El Salvador’s 84-member unicameral legislature approved a new water law.... Read More

The United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Honduras and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) have both condemned the recent killing of Pablo Isabel Hernández, a local indigenous Lenca leader, activist and human rights defender (HRD).... Read More

In December Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado and Environment & Energy Minister Andrea Meza signed a decree which seeks to incentivise the use of hydrogen to boost the green economy.... Read More

The just published 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index from international anti-corruption NGO Transparency International is broadly positive about the Commonwealth Caribbean.... Read More

Prime Minister Mia Mottley and her ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP) have demonstrated an extraordinary political dominance by winning a second successive 30-0 clean sweep in the 19 January general election.... Read More

On 26 January, Guyana’s finance minister Ashni Singh presented the 2022 budget in which total expenditure is 36.8% above last year.... Read More

*** JAMAICA MURDERS UP 10%.... Read More

EL SALVADOR | IMF urges gov’t to remove bitcoin’s legal tender status.... Read More