Latinnews Daily - 08 January 2018

Development: On 6 January thousands of people took to the streets in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’s second main city and industrial hub, in protest at President Juan Orlando Hernández’s 26 November 2017 re-election victory.... Read More

Development: On 6 January Ecuador’s national assembly appointed the acting vice president, María Alejandra Vicuña, in a permanent capacity to replace Jorge Glas, who was sentenced to six years in prison for corruption last month.... Read More

Venezuela: On 6 January, Venezuela’s national consumer protection agency (Sundde) ordered 26 supermarket chains to lower the prices of foodstuffs and basic goods, claiming that the prices of these products were unduly high.... Read More

Development: On 6 December, Brazil's President Michel Temer received 50 questions from the federal police concerning irregularities in a ports decree.... Read More

* The Venezuelan goverment has freed Brazilian national Jonatan Diniz, closing a diplomatic rift between the two neighbouring countries.... Read More

Guatemala: Guatemala’s national information on food and nutrition security system (Sinsan), a government body, has released new figures which show that in 2017, 111 children under the age of five died in Guatemala as a result of chronic malnutrition – down 31% on the 161 who died in 2016.... Read More

Development: On 7 January the local authorities in Mexico’s Guerrero state reported that 11 people had been killed during a shootout between unidentified gunmen in the city of Acapulco.... Read More

*The commission for dialogue with indigenous peoples (CDPI), an official body, has reported that currently there are 335 active conflicts implicating indigenous peoples in 29 of Mexico’s 32 states.... Read More

Development: On 6 January Paraguay’s attorney general, Francisco Javier Díaz Verón, said that he would not step down despite the launch of a formal illicit enrichment probe into his and his wife’s activities.... Read More

Uruguay: Uruguay XXI, the official investment and exports promotion agency, reported that the value of the country's automotive exports increased to US$112.3m in 2017, up 75% from US$64m in 2016.... Read More

Chile: On 3 January, US President Donald Trump phoned Chile’s president-elect Sebastián Piñera, of the centre-right Chile Vamos coalition, to congratulate him on his win in Chile’s December 2017 presidential election.... Read More