Caribbean & Central America - January 2023

Despite having pledged to demilitarise citizen security in her 2021 election manifesto, Honduras’s President Xiomara Castro and her leftist Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) government would instead appear to be following the lead of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in suspending constitutional guarantees and cracking down on gangs. The first piece in this January 2023 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America considers the Castro government’s latest response to insecurity.

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