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Empresa Tomza Guatemala S.A. reported that in Nicaragua the government of President Daniel Ortega illegally expropriated and confiscated the company's assets, which together amount to $4 million in investments.
The expropriation process took several years. Tomza executives explained that in 2015 they were granted the permits for the construction of a property located in the municipality of Tipitapa, department of Managua.
The National Learning Institute of Costa Rica tenders security and physical and electronic surveillance services for facilities located in Cartago and Turrialba.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2021LN-000001-0002100010:
"The provision of the service shall be performed at the facilities of:
-Centro de Formacion Profesional de Cartago (Loyola), located in Cartago, Barrio Loyola Taras diagonal to the Vidriera Centroamericana (Vicesa), adjacent to the San Ignacio de Loyola school, with an approximate area of 2300 m².
Although in 2019 the arrival of tourists to Costa Rica increased 4% compared to 2018, businessmen of the sector continue to face complex procedures to open a new business and the high costs of basic services.
Data from the Directorate General of Immigration and Foreigners, said that between 2018 and 2019 the number of foreign visitors who came to the country grew by 122 thousand, from 3.01 million to 3.14 million tourists.
Because of factors such as business closures and lack of opportunities, it is estimated that criminal activity costs Honduras and El Salvador 16% of GDP, and in the case of Guatemala, its losses could amount to 7% of its production.
In Central America, the human costs of crime remain one of the highest in the world. El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—referred to as the Northern Triangle— account for about four-and-a-half percent of homicides worldwide despite only having about one-half-percent of the world's population.
A raíz del robo de un contenedor que transportaba productos lácteos, la cámara del sector hizo un llamado a todos los gremios vinculados al comercio internacional y local, para que refuercen sus medidas de precaución.
In a statement, the Nicaraguan Chamber of the Dairy Sector (CANISLAC) reported that on Friday, December 13, 2019, the first container of Quesillo was stolen in the history of Nicaragua.
The U.S. government decided to raise the security alert level for travel to the Central American country from 1 to 2, arguing that violent crimes are occurring that can affect tourists.
The North American country maintains four categories that classify the degree of danger that tourists face when visiting a destination. In the case of Costa Rica, it went from category 1, which tells travelers to take normal precautions, to category 2, which warns that greater caution should be taken.
The Guatemalan government's decision to extend until November the State of Siege in six departments and add municipalities of Sololá, generates concern among tourism businessmen.
On September 4, the State of Siege was decreed in 22 municipalities in the departments of Izabal, Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Zacapa, El Progreso, and Petén, following the death of three members of the Army at the hands of alleged drug traffickers in the village of Semuy II, in El Estor, Izabal.
Because the area of stolen land in Guatemala has grown from about 10,000 hectares in the 1990s to 164,000 in 2018, losses in agricultural production caused by this phenomenon reached nearly $650 million last year.
The Chamber of Agriculture (Camagro) estimates that only in 2018, invasions of private property, mainly agricultural production farms, generated a negative impact equivalent to 0.6% of Gross Domestic Product.
After motorized paramilitaries attacked a group of businessmen with firearms on September 7, the productive sector asks the government to clarify the facts "in an objective and truthful manner.”
The violent aggression was directed at the Cosep delegation and the Civic Alliance, made up of José Adán Aguerri, Michael Healy and Álvaro Vargas, who accompanied journalists Jaime Arellano and Aníbal Toruño on a visit to the city of León, reported the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep).
After three soldiers were killed in Izabal, Guatemalan business sector asks the government to regain control of the territories where criminal groups dominate.
On several occasions, business chambers have denounced that organized crime groups operate in the area from the Polochic Valley to Izabal, thus affecting productive activity in the area.
The situation became clear after it was reported on September 3 that a patrol of the Guatemalan Army Marine Infantry was ambushed in the municipality of El Estor, department of Izabal. As a result, three soldiers were killed.
A week after suspending operations because of extortion by local criminal groups, Nova Guatemala decided to restart operations on 19 August.
Days ago it was reported that because of the insecurity conditions in the municipality of Champerico, in Retalhuleu, the company had decided to suspend its operation.
However, after reaching an agreement that the National Civil Police and elements of the Army provide surveillance to the facilities, it was decided to resume production activities.
The shrimp company Nova Guatemala, which has been operating for more than 20 years in Champerico, Retalhuleu, has been closed since Aug. 12 because of the extortion it suffers from criminal groups.
Representatives of the Guatemalan Association of Exporters (Agexport) reported that the affected company has approached in search of support, but the details of the case are kept confidential.