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LatinNews Daily - 11 April 2018

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Development: On 10 April, hundreds of sympathisers of Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa (2007-2017), staged a protest march in Quito in defence of the Correa administration’s political legacy and in rejection of the incumbent government led by President Lenín Moreno.... Read More
Andean
Venezuela: Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri announced during a meeting with Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy that he will not recognise the results of Venezuela’s 20 May presidential election.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 10 April, Brazil's President Michel Temer from the ruling Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (MDB) swore in 10 new ministers.... Read More
* At least 21 people have been killed during an attempted prison break in Belém, the capital of Brazil's northern state of Pará, according to the state department for defence and public security (Segup).... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 10 April, Salvador Nasralla, the former presidential candidate for the Alianza de Oposición contra la Dictadura (‘Alianza Opositora’) opposition coalition, announced the withdrawal of his representatives from a technical pre-dialogue table set up to address the post-electoral crisis in Honduras following the November 2017 general election won by Juan Orlando Hernández.... Read More
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Mexico
Development: On 10 April, there was widespread criticism of the decision by Mexico’s electoral court a day earlier to allow Jaime ‘El Bronco’ Rodríguez Calderón to stand as an independent in the presidential elections on 1 July. Significance: Rodríguez Calderón is not going to win the presidential election but his participation in the contest will take votes away from the current frontrunner, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party.... Read More
* Mexico’s energy minister, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, called for discipline and continuity in the negotiation of oil concession contracts during the opening of the third national petroleum convention on 10 April.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 10 April, various NGOs expressed “deep concern” about a new legislative bill presented the previous day by Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera which updates existing migration legislation.... Read More
Uruguay: The national statistics institute (INE) has released new figures that show that the national unemployment rate stood at 9.3% in February, a 0.8 percentage point increase compared with the January unemployment rate (8.5%) and 1.1 percentage points higher than the rate recorded in February 2017 (8.2%).... Read More

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