Caribbean & Central America - June 2022

The first piece in this June 2022 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America begins with Costa Rica where the country’s new president, Rodrigo Chaves, whose Partido Progreso Social Democrático (PPSD) government took office on 8 May, faces various security-related challenges.... Read More

Costa Rica’s new president, Rodrigo Chaves, whose Partido Progreso Social Democrático (PPSD) government took office on 8 May, faces various security-related challenges.... Read More

Authorities and NGOs are attempting to raise awareness around forest fires, which are an increasing threat in Central America and can have serious knock-on effects for the health of humans and the natural environment.... Read More

Panama plans to continue green energy investments, the country’s energy minister, Jorge Rivera Staff, told the BNEF Summit, a clean energy forum organised by Bloomberg Finance in New York on 19-20 April.... Read More

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has said that Colombia doesn’t want to accept an international ruling on maritime activity in disputed waters in order to “keep trafficking the drugs they take to Europe and the US”.... Read More

In mid-May, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele welcomed representatives from 44 countries to discuss the country’s adoption of cryptocurrency bitcoin as legal tender.... Read More

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega has boosted ties with Iran and China in recent months as the US steps up efforts to punish his government for its attacks on civil liberties and dismantling of democratic institutions.... Read More

In an April 2022 report for the US-based think tank Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Professor R Evan Ellis, a research professor with the US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute and an indefatigable monitor of China’s engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), looked at China’s engagement with the Caribbean and how Beijing might capitalise, to the detriment of US strategic interests, on the wider stresses that Caribbean nations are feeling as a result of the combined effects of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, drug-trafficking, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.... Read More

There has been some optimistic talk about the weak Cuban economic recovery, which began in 2021, beginning to gather some pace in 2022.... Read More

The Dominican Republic’s economy grew by 6.4% in March according to the monthly index of economic activity (IMAE) compiled by the central bank (BCRD) and published in early May.... Read More

*** ANTI-COLONIALISM PLAYS INTO BVI CRISIS.... Read More

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | New solar park inaugurated.... Read More