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LatinNews Daily - 23 February 2018
Main Briefing
Development: During an event in São Paulo to commemorate 38 years of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), leaders discussed the future of the Left ahead of this year’s general election.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 22 February, Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski invited Kenji Fujimori, the son of former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), to accompany him on the presidential plane to oversee a project to clean up Lake Titicaca in the south-eastern region of Puno.... Read More
Venezuela: Venezuela’s opposition-controlled national assembly released a statement on 22 February condemning a proposal floated by the government earlier this week to move forward legislative elections from the end of 2020 to just two months from now on 22 April, alongside presidential elections.... Read More
Brazil
* Banco do Brasil (BB) will become the first global bank to allow electronic bank transfers through Facebook, according the bank’s vice-president Gustavo do Vale.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 22 February, Costa Rica’s supreme court (CSJ) called on the 57-member unicameral legislature to fire a CSJ judge, Celso Gamboa, for alleged corruption.... Read More
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Mexico
Development: On 22 February, José Antonio Meade, the presidential candidate of Mexico’s ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), incorporated two grandees into the party’s campaign team in a bid to revive his faltering fortunes in the polls.... Read More
* Mexico’s federal police force has announced the arrest of a senior municipal law enforcement official in the northern state of Chihuahua.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 22 February, Argentina’s security minister Patricia Bullrich announced six arrests in relation to the discovery of 389 kg of cocaine at the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires.... Read More
Uruguay: Uruguay has become the only Latin American country to be admitted to the Digital 7 (D7), an inter-governmental organisation which recognises digital advancement and aims to use technology in a socially responsible way.... Read More
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- In brief: Venezuela
- In brief: Brazil
- Calls for Costa Rican CSJ judge to be dismissed over ‘Cementazo’
- In brief: Costa Rica
- Mexico’s Meade seeks makeover
- In brief: Mexico
- Arrests over drug seizure at Russian embassy in Argentina
- In brief: Uruguay