The tourist paradise of the Dominican Republic has many faces: poverty, corruption, environmental struggle and international conspiracies against the nation’s maritime law. According to Countryaah, the single largest case in the Dominican Republic in...
The Dominican Republic is, after the 1966 Constitution, a unified state and formally democratic republic. The supreme executive has been appointed a president, elected in the general election for four years without the possibility...
State and politics GOVERNMENT Dominica became an independent republic within the British Commonwealth in 1978. Its president is elected by Parliament for a term of five years and can be re-elected once. A presidential...
Fidel Castro’s death shook the country, but does not appear to significantly alter the ongoing reform process. Parallel to the different views on the direction and “rhythm” that this reform process should take, a...
Cuba is a socialist republic where the Communist Party has a monopoly of power. The political system was designed during a period of strong influence from the Soviet Union, but it also has a...
A series of corruption scandals and growing dissatisfaction with the government’s inability to reduce poverty and social disparities led to a new party winning the presidential power in Costa Rica in 2014. According to...
State and politics GOVERNMENT Costa Rica is a republic, in which the executive is exercised by a president who is elected for four years in general and direct elections. Direct re-election of incumbent president...
State and politics GOVERNMENT Canada is a federation of ten provinces and three territories. The legislative power is exercised by a two-chamber parliament: the senate, with 105 members appointed by the government on a...
Belize is the only Central American country with history as a British colony and with English as the official language. An unresolved border dispute with Guatemala that has been going on since the end...
Since independence from the United Kingdom in 1981, Belize has been a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary-democratic unity state. The head of state is the British monarch, represented in Belize by a general governor....
State and politics Barbados is an independent state within the British Commonwealth. The British monarch is head of state and is represented on the spot by a general governor. He appoints the person who...
Since 1973, the Bahamas has been an independent, parliamentary-democratic unitary state within the British Commonwealth. The British Queen is the head of state and is represented by a Governor General. This is appointed on...
State and politics Formerly part of the British West Indies (1958-62), the two islands obtained internal self-government in 1967 and independence within the Commonwealth on November 1, 1981. Dominant political force since the 1950s,...
Central America countries Central America comprises a total of 20 countries. See Abbreviationfinder. The largest country in the region in terms of area is Nicaragua with 129,779 square kilometers, but most of the inhabitants...