LatinNews Daily Report - 11 June 2013

Development: On 10 June Colombia’s Vice-President Angelino Garzón suggested that the Colombian government could ask the United Nations (UN) to investigate claims by a former Venezuelan minister that Botogá-based members of the Venezuelan opposition had negotiated the purchase of 18 planes from US dealers, ostensibly to attack Venezuela from a ‘US military base’ in Colombia.... Read More

Key points: The announcement comes as Ecuador’s national assembly is debating a new ‘mining and equitable tax reform’ bill that seeks to promote private investment in the underdeveloped mining sector.... Read More

Development: On 10 June the government led by President Ollanta Humala announced an investigation into allegations that Peru’s security apparatus has been spying on prominent political opposition figures.... Read More

ECONOMY | FTA with Israel.... Read More

ECOMOMY | China allows imports of GM soya beans from Brazil.... Read More

Development: On 10 June Nicaragua’s congressional infrastructure committee approved a bill granting the recently-created HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Company a concession to build and operate an inter-oceanic canal (‘Gran Canal’), Nicaragua’s biggest ever development project, with an estimated cost of US$40bn.... Read More

Development: On June 10 Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto signed the country’s new telecommunications reform bill into law.... Read More

Development: On 10 June government officials and economists began weighing up the implications of China’s June 8 announcement that it had approved three new strains of genetically modified (GM) soya and one of GM maize for import from Argentina.... Read More

POLITICS | Bachelet - to testify or not to testify.... Read More