Caribbean & Central America
Caribbean & Central America - July 2024
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- Introduction
Central America
- HONDURAS: Gov’t declares climate emergency
- EL SALVADOR: Rowing back on transitional justice
- NICARAGUA: More efforts to stamp out dissent
- PANAMA: First climate change migrants
- GUATEMALA: Seeking to attract investment in the face of logistics crisis
- COSTA RICA: Poverty down but inequality persists
Caribbean
- HAITI: Mission impossible
- REGION: Jet Air declares bankruptcy
- REGION: Could SIDS shake up Caribbean finances?
- ANTIGUA & BARBUDA: Debt is still the thing
- CARIBBEAN POINTERS
Economic Highlights
- Economic Highlights
In late May Honduras’ government declared a climate emergency, aimed at defending protected areas and water production zones.
Caribbean & Central America - June 2024
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- Introduction
Central America
- PANAMA: Doubts over president-elect’s pledges
- GUATEMALA: Arévalo touts progress in 100-day balance sheet, key pledge is pending
- NICARAGUA: Drawing closer to Moscow
- EL SALVADOR: Ratings agency upgrade masks economic concerns
- REGION: El Niño highlights electricity supply issues
Caribbean
- HAITI: Health system’s collapse latest symptom of state failure
- JAMAICA: Government and opposition at odds over reform process
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Abinader re-election points to economic reforms
- BELIZE: IMF highlights need to entrench debt sustainability
Economic Highlights
- Economic Highlights
José Raúl Mulino, who served as Panama’s interior and security minister under right-wing former president Ricardo Martinelli (Cambio Democrático, CD, 2009-2014), won the 5 May presidential elections for Martinelli’s new outfit Realizando Metas.
Caribbean & Central America - May 2024
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- Introduction
Central America
- EL SALVADOR: State of exception passes two-year mark
- REGION: Wildfires draw concern
- HONDURAS: Authorities claim coca eradication progress
- NICARAGUA: Purge of judiciary continues
- GUATEMALA/REGION: Mine dispute symptomatic of uncertainty
- COSTA RICA: Exporters complain about currency appreciation
Caribbean
- REGION: ‘Credible’ human rights issues widespread within Caricom
- REGION: Building agrifood trade between the Caribbean and Central America
- CARIBBEAN POINTER
- JAMAICA: Fiscal success creates new opportunities
- CUBA: Solar not shining brightly enough?
- BARBADOS: Movement on debt-for-climate
Economic Highlights
- Economic Highlights
El Salvador recently marked the two-year anniversary of the state of exception declared by Nayib Bukele’s government as part of declared efforts to crack down on gangs – a move which suspended constitutional guarantees [SSR-22-05].
Caribbean & Central America - April 2024
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- Introduction
Central America
- HONDURAS: A long-awaited verdict
- NICARAGUA: FSLN further cements control
- PANAMA: Order to halt migrant aid raises eyebrows
- GUATEMALA: Addressing indigenous demands
- GUATEMALA: Arévalo charting economic course with US assistance
- REGION: New BCIE chief pledges to end loans to El Salvador and Nicaragua
Caribbean
- JAMAICA: Opposition PNP makes progress
- GUYANA: UN Human Rights Committee has a look at Guyana
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Growth rate set to double this year
- THE BAHAMAS: Reeling from the climate change punches
- REGION: Tourism recovery under way
Economic Highlights
- Economic Highlights
A US federal jury has found Honduras’ former president Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022) guilty on three drug and weapons-related counts.
Caribbean & Central America - March 2024
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- Introduction
Central America
- GUATEMALA: Arévalo’s initial security moves
- EL SALVADOR: Election day marred by irregularities
- NICARAGUA: The right to asylum and citizenship?
- PANAMA: Continued drought brings further canal restrictions
- HONDURAS: Value of goods exports falls year-on-year
Caribbean
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Plaudits for anti-corruption efforts
- TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Ghost ship dumps oil
- REGION: Bahamas, Belize and Turks & Caicos removed from EU tax list
- HAITI: Challenges facing MSS
- CUBA: Economy minister replaced amid tension over austerity
- GUYANA: Budget problem: too much money
Economic Highlights
- Economic Highlights
We begin the March 2024 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America in Guatemala where, since taking office mid-January, President Bernardo Arévalo has declared the fight against extortion a key security priority.
Caribbean & Central America - February 2024
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- Introduction
Central America
- GUATEMALA: A new era in Guatemala as Arévalo takes over the reins
- HONDURAS: Foot-dragging on CICIH draws concern
- NICARAGUA: Weakening the judiciary
- NICARAGUA: Government steps in after key coffee buyer declares bankruptcy
- COSTA RICA: Medical devices drive strong increase in value of exports
Caribbean
- JAMAICA/THE BAHAMAS: US raises travel warnings amid crime concerns
- REGION: EU presses for changes to CBI programmes
- SURINAME: Debt restructuring nearly completed
- REGION: Mosquitoes recruited for anti-dengue sting
- REGION: Mixed reaction to Icon of the Seas
- POINTERS
Economic Highlights
- Economic Highlights
We begin the February 2024 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America in Guatemala where, against all the odds, anti-corruption reformer Bernardo Arévalo was finally sworn in as president last month.
Caribbean & Central America - January 2024
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- Introduction
Central America
- COSTA RICA: Another record year of homicides
- HONDURAS: Questioning the impact of Castro's state of exception
- PANAMA: Environmentalists hail ruling against key mine
- GUATEMALA: New supreme court elected after long delay
- GUATEMALA: Regional court ruling will affect outlook for miners
- EL SALVADOR: Economic outlook improving as Bukele poised for re-election
Caribbean
- HAITI: A country seemingly without hope
- CUBA: Government rejects claims of economic “neoliberalism”
- JAMAICA: Debt burden slashed
- REGION: New focus on plastic waste
- POINTERS
Economic Highlights
- Economic Highlights
We begin the January 2024 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America in Costa Rica which finished 2023 with an unprecedented 907 homicides, up from 654 in 2022 – itself a record year.