Caribbean & Central America - February 2025

Donald Trump’s threat upon his 20 January inauguration as US president to take back the Panama Canal, based on claims of Chinese involvement in the waterway, and complaints of high fees, was among the most headline-grabbing of his announcements.... Read More

Donald Trump’s threat upon his 20 January inauguration as US president to take back the Panama Canal, based on claims of Chinese involvement in the waterway, and complaints of high fees, was among the most headline-grabbing of his announcements.... Read More

Last month Guatemala’s anti-corruption reformist President Bernardo Arévalo, who swept to victory in 2023 pledging to take on the ‘pacto de corruptos’ network of institutional corruption, marked his first year in office.... Read More

On 10 December, four days before the 43rd anniversary of the El Mozote massacre, one of the worst atrocities of El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war, various civil society groups issued a statement decrying a lack of progress in the case.... Read More

Costa Rican coffee producers are set to suffer crop losses due to unseasonably heavy rains and labour shortages which have limited harvesting capacity, adding to long-term issues in the sector.... Read More

Nicaraguan officials have proposed a new route for an interoceanic canal across the country, hoping to take advantage of burgeoning relations with China to bring a long-held ambition to fruition.... Read More

In 2020, Guyana held a highly contested election on the eve of its transformation into an oil-rich nation.... Read More

Various United Nations (UN) bodies and multilateral institutions have been publishing forecasts for the Caribbean economy in 2025.... Read More

Acute foreign currency shortages are driving the Cuban government to open “dollar only” retail stores, despite fears of growing economic inequality.... Read More

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Record tourists.... Read More