Caribbean & Central America - June 2026

The first piece in this June 2026 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America begins in Guatemala where the eight-year tenure of the country’s now former attorney general (AG) María Consuelo Porras (2018-2026) ended on 17 May.... Read More

Guatemala’s now former attorney general (AG) María Consuelo Porras (2018-2026) “politicized justice like no other AG had done in 41 years of democratic rule”.... Read More

Increasingly confident forecasts that the El Niño weather phenomenon will develop this year have sparked widespread concerns in northern Central America, particularly in the arid so-called ‘Dry Corridor’.... Read More

On 20 May Costa Rica’s new president, Laura Fernández, signed a law to finance a new US$800m electric train project, which is part of a wider drive to overhaul the country’s infrastructure and reform the energy system, although structural constraints may limit her ability to deliver on her promises.... Read More

The US administration led by President Donald Trump continues to ramp up its maximum pressure campaign on Cuba, aimed at forcing political and economic change, recently indicting Cuba’s former president Raúl Castro (2008-2018) over the deadly shootdown of two planes in 1996.... Read More

Massive, recurring power cuts have become a central feature of Cuba’s ongoing economic collapse.... Read More

Two interlocking questions are being asked in Kingston.... Read More

The recently published Democracy and Development Report 2026 for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), describes the Caribbean as “one of the most democratic regions in the developing world”, but it also cautions that Caribbean democracies are “under pressure”.... Read More

PANAMA | Toughening tax transparency.... Read More