LatinNews Daily Report - 26 June 2013

Development: On 25 June Education Minister Aloizio Mercadante announced that following consultations with senior members of the judiciary and political leaders the government would promote a national plebiscite on political reform, dropping the idea of a constituent assembly, as proposed by President Dilma Rousseff just 24 hours earlier.... Read More

Development: On 25 June Colombia’s national police confirmed that two more protesting peasant farmers were killed in violent clashes with its mobile anti-riot squadron (Esmad) in the Catatumbo area of Norte de Santander department.... Read More

Development: On 25 June Edwin Castro, the head of President Daniel Ortega’s ruling Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) bench in the 92-seat unicameral legislature, presented a supreme electoral court (CSE) resolution sacking FSLN Deputy Xochilt Ocampo.... Read More

SECURITY | Top police commanders replaced.... Read More

Development: On 25 June Mexico’s foreign minister, José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, expressed concern over US plans to step up security along the two countries’ common border, saying they “depart from the principles of shared responsibility and good neighbourliness”.... Read More

Development: On 25 June President Sebastián Piñera said that his government would “fulfil its duty” and ensure that the 13m Chileans registered to vote in the 30 June presidential primaries would be able to do so.... Read More

Development: On 25 June Argentina’s federal government led by President Cristina Fernández said it would enforce a freeze on the price of bread and demanded that agricultural exporters divert their shipments of wheat and flour back onto the domestic market.... Read More

The government of President Federico Franco has ordered the army into the field in the northern department of San Pedro to track down the guerrillas of the Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP).... Read More