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LatinNews Daily - 12 March 2018
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Development: The preliminary results from Colombia’s national legislative elections held on 11 March show that the right-wing opposition Centro Democrático (CD) party looks set to become the largest single party in the new national congress.... Read More
Andean
Ecuador: Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno has overseen the signing of a new agreement between Ecuador’s state-owned mining firm Empresa Nacional Minera (Enami) and Chile’s state-owned copper mining firm Codelco to develop the Llurimagua mining project.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 10 March, Brazil's leftist Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) named Guilherme Boulos from the landless movement Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Teto (MTST) as its pre-presidential candidate.... Read More
*Brazilian authorities have arrested one man for his role in a series of armed attacks which caused the death of seven people in Fortaleza, the capital of the north-eastern state of Ceará.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 11 March elections took place in Cuba to ratify two official sets of candidates for the 612-seat national assembly and provincial assemblies.... Read More
Nicaragua: Labour Minister Alba Luz Torres has announced a 10.4% increase to the minimum wage.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 11 March, the Mexican army, federal, and state police in the western state of Jalisco moved in on the headquarters of a local municipal police force, disarming 734 municipal police officers.... Read More
*A report by Mexico’s national statistics and geography institute (Inegi) found that although unemployment rates are falling, labour productivity has not improved.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 11 March Chile’s former president (2010-2014) Sebastián Piñera, of the centre-right Chile Vamos coalition, took up the presidency for a second four-year term.... Read More
Argentina: Argentina’s GDP is projected to rise 2% in 2018, well below the government’s projeciton of 3.5%, according to private consultancy company Ecolatina, cited in the local media.... Read More
Washington Watch
Mexico: On 1 March the US Ambassador to Mexico, Roberta Jacobson, announced her resignation, effective from May, in a memo to her staff.... Read More
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- In brief: Ecuador
- Brazil’s Left mulls post-Lula electoral strategy
- In brief: Brazil
- Cuba – another step closer to electing Castro’s successor
- In brief: Nicaragua
- Mexican municipal police force disarmed on suspected crime links
- In brief: Mexico
- Chile’s Piñera sworn in for a second term
- In brief: Argentina
- US ambassador to Mexico to step down