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Caribbean & Central America - May 2022
Introduction
The first piece in this May 2022 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America begins with El Salvador where a crackdown on gangs, which was instigated in late March by the Nuevas Ideas (NI) government led by President Nayib Bukele in response to soaring homicides, is sparking major democracy and human rights-related concerns.... Read More
Central America
A crackdown on gangs, which was instigated in late March by the Nuevas Ideas (NI) government led by President Nayib Bukele in response to soaring homicides, is sparking major democracy and human rights-related concerns.... Read More
On 21 April Honduras’s former president Juan Orlando Hernández (Partido Nacional, PN, 2014-2022) was extradited to the US to face drug trafficking and weapons-related charges.... Read More
In April US Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid a visit to Panama where he met President Laurentino Cortizo, signed a bilateral accord on migration and co-hosted a ministerial meeting on migration, attended by representatives from 20 countries.... Read More
Costa Rica’s new president Rodrigo Chaves has started to lay out his plans to kickstart the country’s troubled economy after winning the presidential run-off on 3 April, but details remain thin on the ground.... Read More
The value of remittances grew by an average of 27.5% for four Central American countries in 2021, according to a recent report by US-based think tank Inter-American Dialogue.... Read More
Caribbean
Food security in the Caribbean has been of increasing concern for some years because of the prevalence of natural disasters and the effects of climate change.... Read More
All forecasts for the economies of the Caribbean have been overturned by the war in Ukraine, most particularly because of the effects on inflation, thus compounding the inherent uncertainties of the post-Covid recovery.... Read More
*** CARIBBEAN NATIONS SECURITY CONFERENCE 2022.... Read More
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