Caribbean & Central America

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• Caribbean & Central America - January 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Sandra Torres de Colom – a First Lady “like no other”? Upon taking office in January 2008, President Alvaro Colom declared that his wife,...

• Caribbean & Central America - February 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Military given indefinite role in combating organised crime There is no end in sight to the use of the armed forces in combating organised crime...

• Caribbean & Central America - March 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  At best a perplexing choice Choosing a man who presided over the worst domestic economic debacle in recent history as a presidential candidate is...

• Caribbean & Central America - April 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Martelly wins weak mandate with landslide victory Haiti finally has a new president-elect. On 4 April, the provisional electoral council (CEP)...

• Caribbean & Central America - May 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

• Caribbean & Central America - June 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

• Caribbean & Central America - July 2011

• Caribbean & Central America - August 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

• Caribbean & Central America - September 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)

• Caribbean & Central America - January 2005

  Central American police force mooted as solution to common security problemsEstablishing a Central American police force, with a legal mandate to...

• Caribbean & Central America - February 2005

  Caribbean & Central AmericaOmar Hallesleven Manuel Salvatierra took over as commander-in-chief of the armed forces on 21 February. Hallesleven's...

• Caribbean & Central America - March 2005

  Muted protests greet first Cafta signingsThe enactment of the Central American free trade agreement (Cafta) between the US and five Central American...

• Caribbean & Central America - April 2005 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  UN approves mild resolution on CubaIt is that time of year again. On 14 April the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) carried out the annual...

• Caribbean & Central America - May 2005 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Posada Carriles turns up in MiamiLuis Posada Carriles, the 77-year-old Cuban-born naturalised Venezuelan, former CIA operative, and author of a...

• Caribbean & Central America - June 2005 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  OAS called in as crisis deepens in NicaraguaThe new secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, was drawn...

• Caribbean & Central America - July 2005 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Bolaños on the back foot in Nicaragua’s power strugglePresident Enrique Bolaños is losing his tussle with the opposition-dominated national...

• Caribbean & Central America - August 2005 (ISSN 1741-458)

  Castro turns the screw on domestic oppositionPresident Fidel Castro turned 79 on 13 August. There is no sign of him mellowing with age. Less than a...

• Caribbean & Central America - September 2005 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Haitians given wide choice but no official Lavalas candidateWhen Haitians go to the polls on 20 November, assuming the date of the presidential...

• Caribbean & Central America - October 2005 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  US intervenes in Nicaraguan power struggleAfter months of failed soft diplomacy the US made a high-level intervention in Nicaragua's political...

• Caribbean & Central America - November 2005 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Time running out for elections in HaitiIt is still not certain that Haiti will hold presidential and legislative elections before the end of 2005....

• Caribbean & Central America - December 2005 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Zelaya wins in Honduras after delayed countThe candidate for the opposition Partido Liberal (PL), Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, won the presidential...

• Caribbean & Central American - 22 July 2003

  Haiti's Aristide builds bridges but doubts about electoral pledge remainThe government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has made an unexpected...

• Caribbean & Central America - 26 August 2003

  Dominican democracy comes under scrutiny after shambolic leadership electionIt has been a tumultuous few weeks in the Dominican Republic. As if...

• Caribbean & Central America - 16 September 2003

  Economic and institutional weakness blights Central AmericaWeakness and instability continue to plague governments across Central America. Recent...

• Caribbean & Central America - 14 October 2003

  US-Cafta talks heat up as Zoellick visits subregionIn the aftermath of the failed World Trade Organization meeting in Cancún in mid-September,...

• Caribbean & Central America - 18 November 2003

  Berger and Colom will contest Guatemala’s presidential run-off The presidential and legislative elections on 9 November proceeded more...

• Caribbean & Central America - 16 December 2003

  Alemán gets 20 years after Sandinista pact spurs US interventionIt might yet prove to be premature to write a political obituary of Arnoldo Alemán...

• Caribbean & Central America - 20 January 2004

  Massive protests in Haiti as pressure mounts on Aristide to resignPresident Jean-Bertrand Aristide is clinging on by the skin of his teeth. Since...

• Caribbean & Central America - 17 February 2004

  Besieged Aristide clings to powerA tide of violence is threatening to sweep embattled President Jean- Bertrand Aristide away. In what is by far the...

• Caribbean & Central America - 23 March 2004

  Arena maintains stranglehold on power in El Salvador as Saca crushes HándalEl Salvador's ruling party, the Alianza Republicana Nacional (Arena),...

• Caribbean & Central America - 27 April 2004

  Torrijos firm favourite to secure Panamanian presidencyMartín Torrijos will be elected as the new president of Panama on 2 May if the final poll...

• Caribbean & Central America - 25 May 2004

  Guatemala's ruling coalition splinters as Berger courts Rios MonttPresident Oscar Berger has failed spectacularly in the first test of his ability...

• Caribbean & Central America - 22 June 2004

  UN faces huge task in HaitiThe UN will assume complete command control in Haiti on 1 July. 'Minustah', the UN `stabilisation' force commanded by...

• Caribbean & Central America - 20 July 2004

  Haitian government issues disarmament deadline to rebelsThe interim government of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue has taken the bold decision to...

• Caribbean & Central America - 17 August 2004

  Berger buffeted by wave of violent crimeOver 12,000 people took to the streets of Guatemala City, and thousands more nationwide, in a huge march...

• Caribbean & Central America - 21 September 2004

  Pacheco plays down talk of crisis'Why do people try to make everyone believe there is a crisis when everything is working? Could there be someone...

• Caribbean & Central America - 19 October 2004

  Violence flares up in HaitiOn 30 September supporters of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide launched a series of violent protests to demand the...

• Caribbean & Central America - 16 November 2004

  Sandinistas use success in municipal elections to sideline BolañosNicaragua's leftwing opposition, the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional,...

• Caribbean & Central America - 14 December 2004

  Cuba shows soft and hard sidesSeven of the 75 political dissidents rounded up by Fidel Castro’s government in June 2003 were released in late...

• Caribbean & Central America - January 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Government accuses FMLN of being in league with mara gangsPresident Tony Saca is making a direct appeal to Salvadoreans to vote for the ruling...

• Caribbean & Central America - February 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Préval prevails in Haiti but could be haunted by charges of illegitimacyElections went ahead on 7 February at the fifth attempt despite the...

• Caribbean & Central America - March 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Arena and FMLN share spoils in El Salvador's legislative electionsPresident Tony Saca will not have an absolute majority in the legislative assembly...

• Caribbean & Central America - April 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  US takes active role in Nicaraguan electionsThe active participation of the US ambassador Paul Trivelli in Nicaragua's electoral process is...

• Caribbean & Central America - May 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Fernández scores resounding victory in Dominican legislative electionsPresident Leonel Fernández insisted on taking a very active role in...

• Caribbean & Central America - June 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Haiti’s Préval pulls together coalition cabinetPresident René Préval will begin his term in office with a coalition cabinet behind him....

• Caribbean & Central America - July 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Death of Lewites changes electoral landscapeJust days after the US assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, Tom Shannon,...

• Caribbean & Central America - August 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Ailing Castro hands over powerWith the publication, on 14 August, of photographs showing a smiling Fidel Castro lying in his sickbed clasping the...

• Caribbean & Central America - September 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Berger seeks foreign approvalPresident Oscar Berger is cutting an increasingly beleaguered figure as he approaches the final year of his term in...

• Caribbean & Central America - October 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Ortega maintains lead over divided RightJust as he did at this stage of three previous unsuccessful campaigns, Daniel Ortega of the Frente Nacional...

• Caribbean & Central America - November 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

  Ortega’s extraordinary comebackFollowing three failed attempts to win back the presidency after being ousted from power in 1990, Daniel Ortega of...