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LatinNews Daily - 18 April 2018
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Development: On 17 April, the Panamanian government led by President Juan Carlos Varela said that it would do all that is necessary to maintain public order.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 17 April, Ecuador’s interior minister César Navas confirmed that two more civilians have been kidnapped by the ‘Oliver Sinisterra’ front, a dissident group of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas that operates in the Colombia-Ecuador border area.... Read More
Venezuela: Venezuela’s opposition-controlled national assembly (AN) has voted in favour of subjecting President Nicolás Maduro to impeachment proceedings.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 17 April, justices in Brazil’s supreme court (STF) said that Senator Aécio Neves from the centre-right opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) should stand trial for corruption.... Read More
* A supreme court judge has given Brazil's federal government 30 days to respond to a request from the Roraima state government to temporarily close the border with Venezuela.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 17 April, a group of candidates running in Mexico’s 1 July general election, including independent presidential candidate Margarita Zavala and José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, the presidential candidate of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), requested that the electoral authorities provide them with increased security during the campaign period. ... Read More
* On 17 April, credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service warned that halting the construction of Mexico City's new international airport (NAICM) would be negative for the country’s credit rating.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 17 April, the presidential candidate of Paraguay’s Alianza Ganar opposition electoral alliance, Efraín Alegre, accused President Horacio Cartes of being a “smuggler” and the presidential candidate of the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana- Partido Colorado (ANR-PC), Mario ‘Marito’ Abdo Benítez, of being Cartes’ “puppet”.... Read More
Paraguay: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised up its 2018 GDP growth projection for Paraguay.... Read More
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- Panama prepares for national strike by construction workers
- Ecuador pushes for international cooperation following new kidnapping
- In brief: Venezuela
- Brazil’s Aécio Neves to stand trial for corruption
- In brief: Brazil
- In brief: El Salvador
- Candidates demand increased protection in Mexico
- In brief: Mexico
- Political tension rises in Paraguay ahead of vote
- In brief: Paraguay