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LatinNews Daily - 28 February 2018

Main Briefing
Development: On 27 February, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and five other candidates formally registered their candidacies before the national electoral council (CNE) for the 22 April presidential election. ... Read More
Andean
Colombia: Interior Minister Guillermo Rivera has condemned the latest bomb attack targeting Colombia’s security forces carried out by the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrillas, saying that this impedes the resumption of the suspended peace negotiations that the government had been holding with the ELN leadership in Quito, Ecuador.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 27 Feburary In his first move as head of Brazil's newly created public security ministry, Raul Jungmann, dismissed the head of the federal police, Fernando Segovia.... Read More
* North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late Father Kim Jong Il used illegally obtained Brazilian passports to apply for visas for several Western countries in the 1990s according to documents seen by Reuters.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 27 February, Guatemala’s interior minister, Enrique Antonio Degenhart Asturias, fired the general director of the national police (PNC), Nery Ramos, along with three other senior PNC officials.... Read More
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Mexico
Development: On 27 February, Mexico’s foreign ministry (SRE) claimed that meetings between Mexican government officials and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House advisor, Jared Kushner, were only to discuss bilateral accords.... Read More
* According to Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi), the country's oil exports were up 24.1% in January compared with the same month the previous year, to reach US$2.32bn.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 27 February, Paraguay’s left-wing opposition Frente Guasú (FG) coalition presented an appeal before the supreme court against a ruling by the supreme electoral tribunal (TSJE) which allows President Horacio Cartes, Vice President Juan Afara, and former president Nicanor Duarte Frutos (2003-2008) to run as senators in the 22 April general election.... Read More
Paraguay: The Paraguayan government has announced some G$445bn (US$80m) in cuts to the national budget (equivalent to 0.6% of total budget).... Read More

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