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Latinnews Daily - 02 January 2018
Main Briefing
Development: On 30 December 2017, Peru’s attorney general Pablo Sánchez denied any responsibility for the leaking of an audio recording of testimony given to Peruvian prosecutors by Marcelo Odebrecht implicating Peruvian political leaders in the corruption scheme centred around the Brazilian engineering firm, Odebrecht. ... Read More
Andean
Peru: The national statistics institute (Inei) has reported that Peru’s national inflation rate at year-end 2017 was 1.36%, significantly lower than the 3.23% year-end inflation registered in 2016.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 1 January, nine prisoners were killed, 14 injured, and dozens escaped following clashes at the Aparecida de Goiânia prison complex in Brazil's violent state of Goiás.... Read More
* Via decree, President Michel Temer has set the monthly minimum wage for 2018 at R$954 (US$288), up just R$17 (US$5) from 2017.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 31 December, El Salvador’s national civil police force (PNC) reported that 3,954 murders had taken place in the country in 2017, a 25% reduction on the 5,280 committed in 2016 – the second most violent year since the country’s internal armed conflict (1979-1992) ended.... Read More
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Mexico
Development: On 1 January, Jaime ‘El Bronco’ Rodríguez Calderón formally took leave of absence as governor of Mexico's north-eastern state of Nuevo León in order to seek the presidency on 1 July.... Read More
* Local economists polled by the local media have projected that Mexico’s domestic economy could grow by 2.5% this year, above the central bank’s forecast of 1.8%-2.3%.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 1 January, a group of hooded individuals attacked a forestry company, Anchile, in Chile's southern Los Lagos Region and set fire to its machinery.... Read More
Argentina: The national government has promulgated into law the 2018 national budget and the law of fiscal responsibility and consensus that were approved by the federal congress in a series of extraordinary sessions held in the final days of December 2017.... Read More
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- In brief: Peru
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