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Latinnews Daily - 09 January 2018
Main Briefing
Development: On 8 January, the US government led by President Donald Trump announced it was terminating the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for El Salvador as of 9 September 2019.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 8 January, the Colombian government announced the deployment of 2,000 armed forces personnel to help combat drug trafficking activity in the Pacific port city of Tumaco, Nariño department.... Read More
Bolivia: Bolivia’s medical association (Colegio Médico) has announced the end of a strike by doctors and health care professionals which began on 23 November 2017.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 8 January, a federal judge suspended a swearing in ceremony for Brazil's new labour minister Cristiane Brasil scheduled for later today (9 January), declaring her morally unfit for the post.... Read More
* In the midst of a public security crisis in Goiás state, the president of Brazil’s supreme court (STF), Justice Carmen Lúcia Antunes, called off a visit to the Colonia Agroindustrial prison where the new year’s riots took place due to security fears.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 8 January, the governor of Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua, Javier Corral, accused the federal government of punishing his administration financially for its uncompromising investigation of official corruption.... Read More
* The Mexican association of automobile producers (Amia) has reported that the country’s light automobile production reached 3.77m units in 2017, an 8.9% year-on-year increase and a new record high.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 8 January, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet defended the foreign policy line pursued by her government and called for it to be maintained once president-elect Sebastián Piñera assumes office on 11 March.... Read More
Paraguay: Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes has promulgated into law a bill that legalises the use and production of marijuana and marijuana derivatives for medicinal purposes.... Read More
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