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LatinNews Daily Report - 24 June 2013

Main Briefing
Development: On 23 June Ecuador’s foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño, confirmed that the Ecuadorean government had received a formal political asylum request from the former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor-turned whistleblower, Edward J.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 22 June two coca producers (cocaleros) were killed in clashes with security forces in Ocaña, a province in the Catatumbo area of Colombia’s north-eastern Norte de Santander department.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 23 June President Dilma Rousseff met state governors and city mayors, as well as the leaders of the civic movement demanding free public transport (Movimento Passe Livre [MPL]), to discuss the ‘national plan for urban mobility’ she proposed during her national address on Friday (22 June).... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
POLITICS | Ortega under pressure over pensions.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 23 June Gustavo Madero, the president of the opposition Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), and Mexico City’s Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera, of the also-opposition Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), gave a joint press conference in Tijuana, Baja California (BC), in which they offered their joint support for the state’s gubernatorial candidate, Francisco ‘Kiko’ Vega de la Madrid.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 23 June, Pablo Abdala of the centre-right Partido Nacional (PN) and other pro-life legislators recognised defeat in a national consultation on whether to hold a national referendum to repeal a controversial October 2012 law decriminalising abortion in certain cases.... Read More

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