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Despite presidential hopeful Mauricio Funes, candidate for the left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), claiming he would retain the country's peg to... 2008-11-03

As expected, the Honduran congress ratified the country's membership of the Venezuelan trade and political integration initiative, Alternativa Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra... 2008-11-03

Government attempts to battle rising crime levels in Trinidad and Tobago have come under some criticism recently, with Senator Dana Seethal claiming that the Special Anti Crime Unit... 2008-11-03

Panama's Interior Minister, Daniel Delgado, stepped down from his post in late October in order to defend himself against allegations of murder. Days before his resignation, the attorney... 2008-10-31

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has barred independent observers from overseeing the country's municipal elections, scheduled for November 9. The president justified his actions... 2008-10-31

Political gamesmanship has already got underway in Costa Rica ahead of the presidential election in 2010. The leader of the main opposition Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC), Ottón... 2008-10-31

Consumer prices rose 0.7% on the month in September, pushing year-on-year inflation into double digits for the first time on record. A breakdown of the CPI figures showed a 17% y-o-y... 2008-10-31

The Guatemalan government has asked congress to approve US$986mn for the interior and defence ministries for the 2009 budget. According to President Álvaro Colom, the request for... 2008-10-31

Mauricio Funes, presidential candidate for the opposition Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN), has reiterated that he would continue with the policies of dollarisation... 2008-10-02

Several flashpoints across the country in September underscore the risk of increased violence ahead of November's controversial regional elections. Tension erupted in the municipality... 2008-10-02