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Latinnews Daily - 22 January 2018

Main Briefing
Development: On 21 January, hundreds of people protested in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, outside the congress building as national deputies re-elected Mauricio Oliva of the ruling Partido Nacional (PN) as president of the 128-member unicameral congress.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 21 January Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced that he had decided to resume the formal peace dialogue with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrillas and that he had ordered the government’s negotiating team to immediately travel to Quito, Ecuador, to re-establish the dialogue table.... Read More
Bolivia: Bolivia's President Evo Morales has announced that he intends to ask the 166-member national bicameral legislature, which is controlled by the ruling Movimiento al Socialismo, to repeal the new national criminal code.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 21 January, Brazil’s justice ministry released a statement confirming that the government of Roraima state will investigate all aspects of the 19 January breakout from the Penitenciária Agrícola de Monte Cristo (PAMC) prison in which 92 prisoners escaped through a tunnel.... Read More
* Brazil’s planning, development & administration ministry has reported that Chinese investments in Brazil reached US$29.9bn in 2017, the highest figure since 2010.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
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Mexico
Development: On 21 January Senator Gabriela Cuevas Barrón abandoned Mexico's right-wing Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) and threw her weight behind the presidential campaign of the current frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More
* According to new figures from Mexico’s finance ministry (SHCP), to the end of 2017 local private pension fund administrators (Afores) had accumulated some M$3.1trn (US$170.5bn) in total savings – equivalent to 14.8% of the country's GDP and 7.3% higher than that registered in 2016.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 21 January Uruguay’s umbrella workers’ union, the Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores-Convención Nacional de Trabajadores (Pit-Cnt), called for protesting agricultural producers and the national government to establish a dialogue to address the former’s demands.... Read More
Uruguay, Chile: The newly published edition of the World Economic Forum’s Inclusive Development Index (IDI) has ranked Chile and Uruguay among the top ten most inclusive emerging economies in the world.... Read More
Washington Watch
Haiti: On 18 January the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it was withdrawing Haiti from the list of countries which can apply for seasonal-work visas, the H-2A and H-2B visas.... Read More

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