Caribbean & Central America - March 2025

We begin this March 2025 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America with a look at how Central American countries have been scrambling to comply with US President Donald Trump’s declared priority of enacting mass deportations of migrants – a strategy which has major implications for the sub-region.... Read More

“The most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world”.... Read More

Various Honduran organisations such as Plataforma Agraria, a regional network of over 30 peasant organisations, as well as international institutions like the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras (OACNUDH) have highlighted escalating violence in the northern Bajo Aguán region since late December 2024.... Read More

On 12 February El Salvador’s 60-member unicameral legislature, which is controlled by President Nayib Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas (NI), approved a change removing Art.... Read More

“A lawless, repressive army that has been given constitutional status”.  This was the response by exiled Nicaraguan opposition writer Gioconda Belli to recently approved changes to the constitution which create a voluntary police force.... Read More

Panama must invest in education and job quality to increase productivity, reduce poverty and inequality, and boost long-term growth, according to a new report from the World Bank (WB).... Read More

On 18 February President Rodrigo Chaves vetoed a bill that aims to improve connectivity between Costa Rica and its Central American neighbours by reducing the price of low-cost flights.... Read More

Addressing the Caribbean Community (Caricom) heads of government conference in Barbados on 19 February, United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres noted: “The exquisite beauty of the Caribbean is famed the world over.... Read More

Alistair Routledge, president of US oil giant ExxonMobil Guyana, said in February that, together with partners US firm Hess and China’s China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), his company had requested environmental permits to develop Longtail, its eighth offshore oil and gas project in the country.... Read More

In late January the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report following the conclusion of an Article IV consultation with Grenada, revealing that despite the damage caused by Hurricane Beryl last July – equivalent to around 16% of GDP – growth has been holding up well with GDP expected to expand by 3.9% in 2025.... Read More

Not unusually, Jamaican politicians cannot agree on what is happening in the local economy.... Read More

GUATEMALA | Port expansion.... Read More