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Latinnews Daily - 05 January 2018

Main Briefing
Development: On 4 January, Bolivia's President Evo Morales announced that he would call on the national legislature to repeal two articles (205 and 137) of the recently approved criminal code which is scheduled to take effect in June 2019.... Read More
Andean
Venezuela: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has announced that his government has successfully restructured US$74bn of the country’s foreign debt.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 4 January, Brazil’s foreign ministry (Itamaraty) called on the Venezuelan authorities to provide information about the situation of Brazilian national Jonathan Diniz, 31, after he was imprisoned in the Venezuelan state of Vargas.... Read More
* Brazil’s industry & trade ministry (MDIC) has reported that Brazil exported roughly the same amount of meat in 2017 as it did in 2016.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 4 January, the secretary general of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, called on all OAS member countries to approve the report by the OAS electoral observer mission sent to monitor Honduras’s 26 November general election.... Read More
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Mexico
Development: On 4 January, the former governor of Mexico's Quintana Roo state, Roberto Borge (2011-2016), arrived back in Mexico after being extradited by Panama.... Read More
* The finance ministry (SHCP) has reported that it has successfully issued US$3.2bn in new 10-year bonds in international markets.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 4 January, Uruguay’s umbrella workers’ union, the Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores-Convención Nacional de Trabajadors (Pit-Cnt), called for a 24-hour general strike for 9 January in protest at the recent murder of two union leaders in the country.... Read More
Uruguay: The national statistics agency (INE) has reported that, in December 2017, the consumer price index fell 0.31% compared with the previous month, bringing the cumulative 12-month inflation rate to 6.55%.... Read More

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