Central America

The IMF Hands Honduras $242 Million, With Strings on Its Power Company

An IMF board cleared a Honduras IMF disbursement of 242 million dollars, rewarding fiscal discipline while pressing reform at the...

June 30, 2026

How Tiny Costa Rica Keeps Pulling In Five Billion in Investment

Costa Rica drew over five billion dollars in foreign investment for a second straight year, a small country punching above...

June 20, 2026

A Month-Long Arts Festival Fills Guatemala’s National Theatre

A Guatemala festival has turned June into a month of arts, with 61 productions filling the national theatre in a...

June 13, 2026

Ecuador Strikes Blow Against Drug Cartels with Submersible Seizure

The Ecuadorian Navy recently captured a drug submersible near Esmeraldas, close to the Colombian border

January 23, 2024

Opinion: Nature’s toll on trade – the Panama Canal climate crisis

(Opinion) The Panama Canal, an engineering marvel and linchpin of global commerce has been under severe duress recently.

August 20, 2023

VP warns that Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela or Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua could be reproduced in Honduras

The appointment of new magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras has generated significant fissures within

January 28, 2023

The trade relationship between China and Central America: dynamic and growing

Central America is a region highly dependent on trade with the United States, but economic relations with China have accelerated...

January 18, 2023

Inflation in Central America as of October

In October, Honduras and Nicaragua continued with double-digit year-on-year inflation figures. In Guatemala, the consumer price index

November 14, 2022

These Central American countries froze fuel prices

Fuel prices have fluctuated substantially throughout 2022. The barrel price in New York opened the year at US$75.21 and closed

November 2, 2022