LatinNews Daily - 06 March 2018

Development: On 5 March, the negotiating teams from Mexico, Canada, and the US announced the conclusion of the seventh round of the renegotiation of the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) held in Mexico City from 25 February.... Read More

Development: On 5 March, Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski insisted that there was no justification for a second impeachment motion to be tabled against him in the national congress.... Read More

Venezuela: Venezuela’s Vice President Tareck El Aissami has announced that the Venezuelan government will work with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Unido), to develop new economic development policies, deeming the organisation’s backing “an important step” in establishing the so-called 'Programa País', which aims for sustained growth in Venezuela's agrobusiness sector.... Read More

Development: On 5 March, the former CEO of local meat processing company BRF, Pedro de Andrade Faria, was jailed along with nine others is the latest phase of ‘Operation Weak Flesh’.... Read More

* President Michel Temer has appointed Fernando Segovia as Brazil’s new attaché to the country's embasy in Rome, Italy, after he was sacked from his previous position as chief of the federal police.... Read More

Development: On 5 March, the European Union’s Electoral Observer Mission (EU-EOM) to Honduras released its final report on the contentious 26 November 2017 general election in Honduras.... Read More

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* América Móvil, the Mexican telecommunications firm, has announced that it will present a legal appeal against the break-up plan of its local subsidiaries, Telmex and Telnor, proposed by Mexico’s federal telecommunications institute (IFT).... Read More

Development: On 5 March, Chile's President Michelle Bachelet announced she had sent down a draft constitution to the national legislature to replace the 1980 constitution, which dates back to the military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).... Read More

Chile: The central bank (BCCh) has released new figures for the monthly economic activity index (Imacec) which show this was up by 3.9% in January compared with the same month the previous year.... Read More