Caribbean & Central America
Caribbean & Central America - January 2023
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- Introduction
Central America
- HONDURAS: Castro gets tough on gangs
- GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina convicted
- NICARAGUA: New report highlights extent of NGO closures
- REGION: Vital coffee industry facing serious challenges, says new report
- REGION: Costa Rica maintains position as largest receiver of FDI
- COSTA RICA: Fiscal deficit progress as first external bond issuance since 2019 approved
Caribbean
- CUBA: Cuba faces little chance of strong recovery in 2023
- DOMINICA: Skerrit capitalises on opposition boycott
- REGION: Dutch PM’s slavery apology fails to still calls for reparations
- GUYANA: Race continues to dominate Guyana politics
- CARIBBEAN POINTERS
Economic Highlights
- Economic Highlights
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.