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LatinNews Daily - 13 March 2018
Main Briefing
Development: On 12 March, the permanent coordinator of the United Nations (UN) in Honduras, Igor Garafulic, said that there was “will to dialogue” to overcome the continued political crisis stemming from Honduras's 26 November 2017 general election, which produced a contentious victory for President Juan Orlando Hernández.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 12 March Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos ordered the resumption of peace negotiations with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla group.... Read More
Bolivia: Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has presented a bill that would allow police officers and military personnel to use firearms, explosives, and other weapons to fight contraband smugglers.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 12 March, the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte-IDH) ruled against the Brazilian state for failing in its constitutional duty to protect the Xucuru indigenous people.... Read More
*US-based coffee company Starbucks has sold its Brazilian operations to private equities company Southern Rock, which is headquartered in São Paulo.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Nicaragua: Vice President Rosario Murillo has announced plans to extend the Partial Scope Agreement between Nicaragua and Colombia.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 12 March Mexico’s electoral court ruled that there should be no limit on the number of debates that can be held between the country’s presidential candidates ahead of the official start of the campaign on 30 March and afterwards.... Read More
*José Ángel Gurría, the secretary-general for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has called for a second wave of economic reforms in Mexico “to strengthen rule of law, institutions, local governments, formality and social inclusion”.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 12 March the director general of Chile’s militarised police (Carabineros), General Bruno Villalobos, tendered his resignation to President Sebastián Piñera.... Read More
Argentina: Transport Minister Guillermo Dietrich has unveiled a Ar$15bn (US$741bn) redevelopment plan for the ‘Ministro Pistarini’ international airport in Ezeiza that services Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires.... Read More
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- Technical dialogue table installed in Honduras to address post-electoral crisis
- Santos resumes ELN talks in Colombia
- In brief: Bolivia
- Victory for Brazil’s Xucuru
- In brief: Brazil
- In brief: Nicaragua
- Rivals try to goad López Obrador to debate in Mexico
- In brief: Mexico
- Carabineros head quits paving way for shake-up in Chile
- In brief: Argentina