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Caribbean & Central America - June 2024
Introduction
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.... Read More
Central America
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 (RM).... Read More
In late April Guatemala’s new President Bernardo Arévalo marked the first 100 days of his mandate.... Read More
In late April a high-level Nicaraguan delegation led by presidential adviser Laureano Ortega, the son of President Daniel Ortega and First Lady and Vice President Rosario Murillo, paid a visit to Russia where it met with officials including Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to discuss issues primarily related to security.... Read More
On 23 May international credit ratings agency Moody’s upgraded El Salvador, but worries over the economy are growing in the country amid rising poverty rates.... Read More
Officials in both Costa Rica and Honduras recognised electricity problems in May as high temperatures and lower rainfall caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon affected supplies.... Read More
Caribbean
On 22 May, the representative in Haiti of the United Nations (UN) Children’s Fund (Unicef), Bruno Maes, warned that Haiti’s health system was “on the verge of collapse”.... Read More
Given that a general election must be held in Jamaica by September 2025, only a little over a year from now, it is perhaps not surprising that constitutional reform has become a contentious political issue.... Read More
President Luis Abinader was re-elected on 19 May to a second four-year term with a comfortable 58% of the vote.... Read More
On 15 May the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published one of its regular Article IV assessments of the Belize economy.... Read More
Economic Highlights
REGION | Full entry into effect of Central America-European Union (EU) Association Agreement.... Read More
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- Introduction
- 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
- 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