CUBA | Russian loan The Russian government has given its Cuban counterpart a €1.2bn (US$1.36bn) loan to build a new electricity generation plant, Russia’s state news agency (RIA) revealed on 19 October. According to the RIA report, the funds are to be used to build electricity generation units with a capacity to produce up to 200MW to feed the ‘Máximo Gómez’ and Este Habana thermoelectric power stations. The project is part of the Cuban government’s US$10bn development plan to double Cuba’s electricity production capacity from 18,746 gigawatts per hour to 30,299 gigawatts per hour by 2030. The loan was agreed…
President Luis Guillermo Solís is calling for a new inter-institutional strategy in order to tackle the wave of homicides currently afflicting Costa Rica, particularly the capital San José and the Caribbean port city of Limón, which local authorities attribute to a rise in organised crime. President Solís’s announcement, which he made on 15 October, came on the heels of a proposal presented by Security Minister Gustavo Mata and backed by the attorney general, Jorge Chavarría, which would create a specialised unit in the judicial investigations office (OIJ), a branch of the supreme court (CSJ), to be exclusively tasked with investigating…
“A state of siege” is how human rights groups and the political opposition are describing a police presence in the area surrounding the ‘El Limón’ mine in León department after officials were sent in on 16 October to recover control of what is one of Nicaragua’s three main mining areas. The police deployment followed clashes which took place the previous week at the mine (owned by Canadian company, B2Gold Corp.), over a labour dispute which left one police officer dead and 31 people injured, forcing the mine’s temporary closure. As well as reigniting concerns regarding police repression, the clashes come…
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