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LatinNews Daily - 26 March 2018
Main Briefing
Development: On 24 March, Costa Rica's two presidential run-off candidates Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz, of the small conservative Partido Restauración Nacional (PRN), and Carlos Alvarado Quesada, of the ruling centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC), closed their campaigns ahead of the 1 April run-off vote.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 23 March, Martín Vizcarra was sworn in as the 67th president of Peru shortly after the national congress accepted the resignation of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.... Read More
Colombia: Colombia’s prosecutor general’s office has announced that it has opened an investigation into the state-owned oil firm, Ecopetrol, the environment ministry (Minambiente), and the national environmental licensing agency (Anla) over the major oil spill registered on 12 March in the north-eastern department of Santander.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 25 March, military police arrested six suspects in connection with a series of arson attacks in Brazil's north-eastern state of Ceará.... Read More
* Brazil’s employment register (Caged) said the country created 61,188 new jobs in February.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 24 March, hundreds of people took the streets of Mexico’s second city, Guadalajara, to demand that the local and federal authorities find four university students who were reported missing last week.... Read More
* Mexico’s global indicator of economic activity (Igae) fell by 0.7% in January compared to the previous month.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 25 March, thousands of people across Argentina took part in a national protest march in defence of life and in rejection of the legalisation of abortion.... Read More
Uruguay: Uruguay’s central bank (BCU) has released figures which show that Uruguay’s GDP increased by 2.7% in 2017.... Read More
Washington Watch
Argentina: On 19 March, Argentina’s treasury minister, Nicolás Dujovne, spoke with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to ask the US to exempt Argentina from the new steel and aluminium import tariffs that the Donald Trump administration has proposed to implement.... Read More
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- Costa Rican run-off candidates close campaigns
- Vizcarra assumes presidency in Peru
- In brief: Colombia
- Security alert over arson attacks in Brazil’s Ceará
- In brief: Brazil
- In brief: Nicaragua
- New student disappearance case raises alarm in Mexico
- In brief: Mexico
- Major pro-life march in Argentina
- In brief: Uruguay
- US imposes new sanctions on Venezuela; Petro