LatinNews Daily - 14 June 2016

Development: On 13 June Venezuela’s ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) formally challenged at the supreme court (TSJ) the political opposition’s efforts to initiate a recall referendum against President Nicolás Maduro.... Read More

Development: On 13 June Colombia’s constitutional court (CC) struck down a series of resolutions approved by the national government which created ‘strategic mining development areas’ in 20 of the country’s 32 departments.... Read More

Development: On 13 June Teori Zavaskci, a judge in Brazil’s supreme court (STF), sent the investigation into former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) back to Sérgio Moro, the lead investigative judge in ‘Operation Car Wash’, the investigation into corruption at the state-run oil firm Petrobras.... Read More

Development: On 13 June Haiti's interim government led by President Jocelerme Privert imposed an overnight national curfew from 10:00pm to 5:00am.... Read More

Development: On 13 June teachers blocked roads in the states of Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Chiapas as well as the Ciudad de México (CDMX) to protest against the arrest of Rubén Núñez, the secretary general of the militant ‘Sección 22’ branch of Mexico’s combative teachers’ union Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE).... Read More

Development: On 13 June Chile’s Carabineros police evicted student protesters from three Santiago schools, Internado Nacional Barros Arana (Inba), Liceo Javiera Carrera de Niñas, and Liceo de Aplicación, and they arrested 19 people following acts of vandalism which caused damage worth some Cl$400m (US$588,652).... Read More