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LatinNews Daily - 23 March 2018

Main Briefing
Development: On 22 March Costa Rica’s leading national daily La Nación reported that the small conservative Partido Restauración Nacional (RN), the party of presidential run-off candidate Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz, had failed to present its reports on campaign financing on time.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 22 March some 5,000 protesters took to the streets of central Lima waving placards calling upon all Peruvian politicians to go and for new general elections to be staged.... Read More
Venezuela: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has announced a new monetary reconversion plan for Venezuela’s national currency, the Bolívar Fuerte (BF).... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 22 March, Brazil’s supreme court (STF) ruled that the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) leader Lula da Silva could not be jailed until at least 4 April.... Read More
*Brazil's federal government froze R$2bn (US$606m) of spending.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Haiti-Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic (DR)’s attorney general, Jean Alain Rodríguez, has formally requested the extradition of two Haitian nationals, brothers Luis Bom and Francisco Bom, suspected of the murder of a Dominican couple, Julio Reyes Pérez Matos and Neyda Miladis Urbáez Féliz, in February in the DR's border province of Pedernales.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 22 March Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto and the presidential candidate of the federally ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in the upcoming 1 July general election, José Antoio Meade Kuribreña, said that the country’s recently approved structural reforms will help to promote Mexico’s economic development in the medium term and must not be abandoned.... Read More
*Italian energy firm Enel has inaugurated its new US$650m ‘Villanueva’ solar power plant in Mexico’s northern Coahuila state.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 22 March the Uruguayan press published a series of reports from the state-owned bank, Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay (Brou), which appear to show that some of its executives diverted public funds to help finance political campaigns of the country’s centre-right opposition parties.... Read More
Argentina/Brazil: The US government led by President Donald Trump said it would exempt two South American countries – Argentina and Brazil – from its new aluminium and steel tariffs.... Read More

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