LatinNews Daily - 12 April 2018

Development: On 11 April Paraguay’s supreme court (CSJ) dismissed a constitutional complaint filed by the political opposition that sought to stop President Horacio Cartes from being allowed to run for a senate seat in the 22 April general election.... Read More

Development: On 11 April  the 'Oliver Sinisterra' front, a dissident group of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas, announced the deaths of two Ecuadorean journalists and their driver, who had been abducted by the group last month.... Read More

Venezuela: Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (AIE), has described the fall in Venezuela’s oil production as one of the worst in history.... Read More

Development: On 11 April, the federal police syndicate in Brazil's Paraná state (SinDPF/PR) asked if they could transfer jailed former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011), of the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), to another enclosure.... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has announced that monthly inflation in March was close to zero at 0.09%, bringing the annualised rate to 2.68%.... Read More

Development: On 11 April Guatemala’s social security secretariat (SBS) announced it will strengthen actions in state-run children’s centres.... Read More

Honduras: Honduras’s central bank (BCH) has released new figures which show that exports in January reached US$4.2bn, up 5.6% year-on-year.... Read More

Development: On 11 April, Maribel Barajas Cortés, a young female candidate running for a state legislative seat in Mexico's western state of Michoacán, was killed.... Read More

* International credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service has changed the outlook on the Mexican government’s ratings from negative to stable.... Read More

Argentina: Argentina’s finance minister, Luis Caputo, has announced that the country has successfully issued US$2.3bn in short-term treasury bonds (maturing in six and 12 months) in the domestic financial market; and that the treasury also raised an additional US$1bn via the repurchase agreements (Repos) reached with international banks.... Read More