Caribbean & Central America - June 2025

This June 2025 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America begins in El Salvador where the recent approval of a ‘foreign agents’ law and arrests of high-profile human rights defenders (HRDs) have left little doubt that President Nayib Bukele is intent on taking an increasingly hard line on dissent.... Read More

The recent approval of a ‘foreign agents’ law and arrests of high-profile human rights defenders (HRDs) have left little doubt that El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is intent on taking an increasingly hard line on dissent.... Read More

In his third state of the nation speech to congress on 5 May, Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves was quick to claim progress in tackling insecurity.... Read More

In late April Guatemala’s discredited attorney general María Consuelo Porras ordered the arrest of deputy energy & mining minister Luis Pacheco, a former leader of indigenous organisation 48 Cantones de Totonicapán (48 Cantones), and 48 Cantones’ former treasurer Héctor Chaclán on charges including terrorism.... Read More

On 7 May work began on a major new gold mine in Nicaragua, marking the latest stage in the expansion of an industry which has seen an explosion in the number of concessions granted in recent years despite US sanctions targeting the sector.... Read More

On 22 May Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo agreed a deal with the US to provide technical assistance for expansion projects at the country’s two main ports.... Read More

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) cannot complain that it is being ignored by the second Donald Trump administration.... Read More

Veteran centrist Trinidad & Tobago politician Kamla Persad-Bissessar was sworn in as the country’s new prime minister on 1 May, after her party, the United National Congress (UNC) won a landslide victory on 28 April.... Read More

HONDURAS | Remittances slow in monthly terms.... Read More