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LatinNews Daily - 05 April 2018

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Development: During the early hours of 5 April, the majority of Brazil's supreme court (STF) justices rejected former president Lula da Silva’s (2003-2011) plea to remain a free man while he appeals a corruption conviction.... Read More
Andean
Development: Ecuador’s transitional citizen participation and social control council (Cpcss) announced on 4 April an investigation into decisions taken by former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), as part of the campaign against corruption by the new Alianza País (AP) government led by President Lenín Moreno.... Read More
Colombia: Colombia’s national federation of coffee producers (FNC) has reported that national coffee production fell by 6% year-on-year to 3.4m 60kg sacks in Q1 2018.... Read More
Brazil
*Mining company Anglo American has been fined R$125.6m (US$37.7m) by the environmental regulator of Brazil's Minas Gerais state for a spill from a broken iron ore pipeline running between Minas Gerias and Rio de Janeiro.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 4 April Nayib Bukele, the popular mayor of El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, submitted documentation to the electoral authorities (TSE) to register his political movement ‘Nuevas Ideas’ as a party.... Read More
Guatemala: Guatemala’s supreme court (CSJ) has rejected a request to strip President Jimmy Morales of his immunity from prosecution so that he may be investigated for his alleged responsibility in the deaths of 41 girls killed in the March 2017 blaze at the ‘Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción’ children’s centre.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 4 April Mexico’s foreign ministry (SRE) made it clear that the deployment of US National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border will seriously damage bilateral relations.... Read More
*Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto has named Baltazar Hinojosa Ochoa as his new agriculture minister.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 4 April Paraguay’s chamber of deputies voted in favour of approving the partial veto issued by President Horacio Cartes against a recently approved political reform bill.... Read More
Chile: Chile’s new finance minister, Felipe Larraín, has announced a new fiscal austerity plan to be applied to ministries, governors, and intendencies which seeks to save US$122m a year – or some US$500m in four years – with the savings to be used to finance social programmes.... Read More

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