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LatinNews Daily - 27 June 2017
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Development: On 26 June, Brazil’s prosecutor general, Rodrigo Janot, filed charges of passive corruption against President Michel Temer before the supreme court (STF).... Read More
Andean
Development: On 26 June, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales swore-in the deputy minister for pensions & financial services, Mario Guillén Suárez, as his new economy & finance minister.... Read More
Peru: For the past two weeks, protestors in Andahuaylas, Apurímac region, have been campaigning to put an end to local government corruption for public works such as water and sewage provisions.... Read More
Brazil
* Federal judge Sérgio Moro has sentenced former finance minister Antonio Palocci (2003-2011) to 12 years, two months and 20 days in prison for corruption and money laundering.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 26 June, Presidents Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras and Jimmy Morales of Guatemala celebrated the launch of a new customs union between Honduras and Guatemala.... Read More
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Mexico
Development: On 26 June, the body of another Mexican journalist, Salvador Adame, was found, this time in the violence-torn Tierra Caliente region of the western state of Michoacán.... Read More
The national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new unemployment figures showing that the national unemployment rate among the economically active population fell to 3.56% in May, compared to 4.03% registered in the same month last year.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 26 June, Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez announced that his government will present a bill allowing those about to retire, who under 1996 legislation were forced to enrol into the mixed pension system manged by local private pension fund managers (Afaps), to choose if they would like to remain in that system or migrate their pensions back to the system managed by the state-owned social security bank (BPS).... Read More
Paraguay: President Horacio Cartes has authorised increasing the minimum monthly wage by 3.9% to G$2.04m (U$371.11).... Read More
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- Brazil’s Temer indicted for corruption
- Bolivia’s Morales names new economy minister
- In brief: Peru, Colombia
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- Central America celebrates birth of new customs union
- In brief: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti
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