After three years and seven rounds of negotiations, Mexico has signed an FTA with Honduras and four other Central American countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Most assessments of the pact say it will help to raise the economy of each nation involved in the Central America Trade Specialization Act. El Salvador’s Ministry […]
Ficohsa Financial Group (GFF), signed an agreement to acquire 90 percent of the shares of Banco Americano, S.A., a bank in the Guatemalan financial system that has operated since 1995. The completion of the transaction is subject to authorization by the Superintendent of Banks of Guatemala. This is part of the normal rules of procedure […]
PRESS RELEASE: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released its first Global Study on Homicide. The Study shows that young men, particularly in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and southern and central Africa, are at most risk from intentional homicide but that women are at highest risk from murder due […]
The U.S. government’s top diplomat for Latin America will be leaving his post this summer as the Barack Obama administration struggles to engage its American neighbors. In an email to staff members late Thursday, Arturo Valenzuela, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, said he would be returning to his duties […]
Leaders of Central America from Belize, Panama and the Dominican Republic will join Honduras to make a formal presentation to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon today. The topic is Regional Security, Environment and Climate Change, and the Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (Comisión Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala [CCIG]). The President arrived in Guatemala […]