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Latinnews Daily - 29 January 2018
Main Briefing
Development: On 27 January, Honduras’s President Juan Orlando Hernández was sworn in as president for another four-year term.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 28 January, a column from Colombia’s Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrillas claimed responsibility for a bomb attack targeting a police barracks in the city of Barranquilla, in the northern Atlántico department, in which five police officers were killed.... Read More
Ecuador: Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno has declared a 60-say state of emergency in the San Lorenzo and Eloy Alfaro cantons of the north-western province of Esmeraldas.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 28 January, police identified five suspects behind a killing at a nightclub where 14 people died in Fortaleza, capital of Brazil's north-eastern state of Ceará.... Read More
* Nine prisoners escaped during a jail break in Carinhanha municipality, located in Brazil's north-eastern state of Bahia.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 27 January, the Centro de Derechos Humanos Zeferino Ladrillero (CDHZL) called for Mexico’s federal interior ministry (Segob) to open an investigation into the abduction of Marco Antonio Sánchez Flores by Mexico City police officers. ... Read More
* Mexico’s state-controlled oil company, Pemex, has reported that revenue generated by its sale of gasoline and diesel was up 37% in 2017 compared with the previous year despite a 3.1% fall in demand.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 28 January, Argentina's President Mauricio Macri announced substantial cuts to government spending in an attempt to reduce the fiscal deficit.... Read More
Argentina: Argentina’s transport ministry has awarded low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle the Certificado de Explotador de Servicios Aéreos (Cesa) certificate to operate in Argentina having passed the necessary quality and security checks.... Read More
Washington Watch
Cuba: In a press release issued on 23 January the US Department of State announced that, in line with a 16 June 2017 National Security Presidential Memorandum “Strengthening the Policy of the US Toward Cuba”, the Department of State is “convening a Cuba Internet Task Force” composed of US government and non-governmental representatives to promote the free and unregulated flow of information in Cuba.... Read More
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