LatinNews Daily - 13 April 2018

Development: On 12 April, Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales called for Guatemalans to vote in a popular referendum on 15 April on whether the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague should rule on Guatemala’s territorial dispute with Belize.... Read More

Development: On 12 April Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno gave the kidnappers of the three Ecuadorean journalists, snatched by a suspected dissident group of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas, 12 hours to provide his government with proof of life of the abductees, or face potential military action.... Read More

Peru: Peru’s foreign trade & tourism ministry (Mincetur) has announced that representatives from the Peruvian and Indian governments have concluded the second round of negotiations for the signing of a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA).... Read More

Development: On 12 April, an investigative report by Brazilian daily, Folha de São Paulo, found that President Michel Temer’s daughter Maristela may have used bribes from meatpacking firm JBS to develop her property.... Read More

* The US’s Boeing and Brazil’s Embraer are edging closer to a merger deal, according to Brazil’s defence minister Joaquim Silva e Luna.... Read More

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Development: On 12 April, the mayor of Tlanepantla, in Mexico's central state of Puebla, was gunned down while driving his car.... Read More

* The Mexican government has issued four so-called 'Samurai' bonds (debt denominated in Japan’s yen currency) for a total of US$1.2bn.... Read More

Development: On 12 April, thousands of people took part in a protest march in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, in demand for a more “transparent and efficient” judicial system.... Read More

* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has reported that monthly inflation in March was 2.3% and that the cumulative inflation for the first quarter was 6.7%.... Read More