LatinNews Daily - 09 April 2018

Development: On 7 April, members of Brazil’s largest trade union, the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), camped out in Curitiba,Paraná state, where former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) is serving out his 12-year,1-month jail sentence.... Read More

Development: On 7 April, dozens of people demonstrated outside a military base in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, in protest at the shortage of childhood vaccinations.... Read More

Bolivia: Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has signed two laws that will grant the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons in San Telmo and Astillero, two oil fields in Tarija department.... Read More

* Brazil’s President Michel Temer named one of his key allies, former chief cabinet secretary Wellington Moreira Franco, as his new energy & mines minister.... Read More

Development: On 6 April, El Salvador’s 84-member unicameral national legislature approved a new decree which extends for another six months ‘extraordinary measures’ announced by the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén aimed at tackling crime.... Read More

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Development: On 7 April, hundreds of Central American migrants taking part in the ‘Viacrucis del Migrante’ caravan demonstrated in Mexico City to demand respect for migrant rights and to protest against US President Donald Trump.... Read More

* The three ministers in charge of the renegotiation of the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) have announced that they have agreed to hold a new negotiating round starting in the US today (9 April).... Read More

Development: On 8 April, Mario Abdo Benítez, the presidential candidate of Paraguay’s ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) in the upcoming 22 April general election, said that, if elected, his government would fight the Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP) insurgent guerrilla group “head on”.... Read More

Argentina: Argentina’s labour ministry has issued a resolution authorising a new local airline company, Polar Airlines, for passenger, cargo, and mail transport activities.... Read More

Bolivia: On 3 April, Bolivia’s former president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (1993-1997, 2002-2003), and his former defence minister, José Carlos Sánchez Berzaín (2003), were found guilty of extrajudicial killings in a US court.... Read More