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LatinNews Daily - 28 March 2018
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Development: On 27 March, the Ecuadorean government confirmed that two journalists from national daily El Comercio, and their driver, had been kidnapped the previous day in Esmeraldas province, on the borders with Colombia.... Read More
Andean
Peru: Peru’s new president, Martín Vizcarra, has appointed Edmer Trujillo as his new transport & communications minister.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 27 March, the public security secretariat of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state reported that 24 people had been arrested following a military-police operation carried out in the state capital on the same day.... Read More
* Fábio Januário, the CEO of Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht, has announced that the firm has signed a new service provision contract with Furnas, a subsidiary of Brazil’s state-owned electricity firm, Eletrobras.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 27 March, Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse installed the high command of the recently restored armed forces (FAd’H).... Read More
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Mexico
Development: On 27 March, Mexico’s national human rights commission (CNDH) announced it had sent personnel to the city of Nuevo Laredo in north-eastern border state of Tamaulipas.... Read More
* Mexico’s energy ministry (Sener) has announced that the country has successfully auctioned off 16 of 35 concessions on offer in the first phase of its third round of oil concessions.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 27 March, Chile’s constitutional court (TC) ruled against part of a law passed by under former president Michelle Bachelet (2014-2018) that would have banned universities and higher education institutions from operating for profit.... Read More
Paraguay: Paraguay’s national public-sector contracts’ oversight body, the Dirección Nacional de Contrataciones Públicas (DNCP), has announced that it has sanctioned 49 local firms contracted to supply services to the state in the first quarter of the year but which have been found to have violated the legislation on state contracts.... Read More
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- Ecuadorean journalists kidnapped near Colombian border
- In brief: Peru
- Security crackdown in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro intensifies
- In brief: Brazil
- Concerns over Haiti’s new military high command
- In brief: El Salvador
- Mexico’s marines under attack
- In brief: Mexico
- Chile’s TC strikes down part of higher education reform
- In brief: Paraguay