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LatinNews Daily - 21 March 2018
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Development: On 20 March, Peru’s main right-wing opposition party, Fuerza Popular (FP, Fujimoristas), released a series of videos in which Kenji Fujimori, its former deputy, appears to offer bribes to FP legislators so that they will vote against the impeachment of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.... Read More
Andean
Ecuador: President Lenín Moreno has announced that three members of Ecuador’s armed forces (FFAA) were killed in a bomb attack on 20 March against soldiers patrolling the Mataje area, in Ecuador’s coastal province of Esmeraldas, on the border with Colombia.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 20 March, Brazil's President Michel Temer told his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, that the “climate” and “conditions” were ripe for a trade deal between the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the Pacific Alliance.... Read More
* Brazil’s leading tile and water-container maker, Eternit, has filed for bankruptcy in São Paulo state.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 20 March Iván Velásquez, the head of the United Nations (UN)-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig), called on Interior Minister Enrique Degenhart to provide more information regarding the dismissal of 11 members of the national police (PNC) who had been working with Cicig to uncover corruption.... Read More
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Mexico
Development: On 20 March, an activist for Mexico's left-wing opposition Partido del Trabajo (PT) was killed by unknown assailants in Oaxaca state.... Read More
* Mexico’s economy minister, Ildefonso Guajardo, has said that the country exported over US$3bn worth of beer in 2017, making it the world’s main exporter of the drink in value terms.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 20 March, delegates from Argentina, which is hosting this year's annual G20 meetings, stressed the benefits of international trade.... Read More
Argentina: Argentina's national statistics institute (Indec) has released its latest unemployment figures, which show that the national unemployment rate was 7.2% in the fourth quarter of 2017.... Read More
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