LatinNews Daily - 08 March 2018

Development: On 7 March, hundreds of people protested against a bill that seeks to decriminalise abortion, which is pending debate in Argentina's federal congress and should be put to the floor within weeks.... Read More

Development: On 7 March, Ecuador’s national assembly unanimously voted in favour of summoning Attorney General Carlos Baca and assembly president José Serrano, to appear before the assembly’s ethics committee on 8 March to explain the mutual accusations made by the two men in a series of press conferences that have taken place over the past fortnight.... Read More

Ecuador: Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno has announced that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has offered to increase Ecuador’s credit line by US$100m to help fund social development programmes.... Read More

Development: On 7 March, Brazil’s fedeal chamber of deputies approved six legislative measures presented by the women’s bench.... Read More

*The former president of Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras, Aldemir Bendine, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his involvement in the Odebrecht corruption scandal.... Read More

Development: On 7 March the Dominican Republic’s (DR) minister of the presidency, Gustavo Montalvo, announced that a 900-strong armed forces contingent has been deployed to the DR’s border with Haiti to reinforce security in the area.... Read More

Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic’s finance minister, Donald Guerrero Ortiz, has reported that public finances ended 2017 with a positive balance.... Read More

Development: On 7 March Mexican opposition leaders demanded President Enrique Peña Nieto reveal the full extent of what he discussed with the son-in-law and senior advisor of US President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner.... Read More

*The deputy governor of Mexico’s central bank (Banxico), Manuel Ramos Francia, has said that Mexico’s domestic economy is bound to continue growing at a rate of around 2% in the foreseeable future due to a lack of investment in areas such as education and technology.... Read More

Uruguay: The director of macroeconomic advisory at Uruguay’s economy & finance ministry (MEF), Christian Daude, has said that the government led by President Tabaré Vázquez is struggling to achieve the fiscal deficit target of 2.5% that it set for itself for the end of the current five-year term in 2020.... Read More