LatinNews Daily - 24 April 2018

Development: On 23 April, Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales accused the attorney general’s office (AG) and the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) of carrying out an illegal raid on his presidential palace.... Read More

Development: On 23 April, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales said he would pull out all the stops to try and solve the political crisis threatening to break up the Union of South American Nations (Unasur).... Read More

Ecuador: Colombia’s trade, industry & tourism ministry (Mincit) has revealed that Ecuador has been given ten days by the Andean Community (CAN) trade bloc (comprising Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador) to eliminate its customs tax for CAN member countries.... Read More

Development: On 23 April, Brazil's justice ministry confirmed that Wallace Moreira Bastos would be the new head of the indigenous agency (Funai) while elsewhere in the capital, Brasília, hundreds of indigenous leaders campaigned for their human rights.... Read More

* The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has condemned the assassination on 10 April of at least 21 people during a prison break in the Santa Izabel prison complex in the Brazilian city of Belém, capital of the northern state of Pará.... Read More

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Development: On 23 April, the attorney general’s office of Mexico’s Jalisco state said that it believes that the three cinematography students kidnapped in the state last month have been murdered by the Cártel Nueva Plaza drug trafficking organisation (DTO).... Read More

*Mexico's national statisticis institute (Inegi) has released the latest edition of its global indicator of economic activity (Igae), which grew by 0.7% in February compared with the previous month.... Read More

Development: On 23 April, Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri called on municipal and provincial governments to eliminate all taxes charged for the provision of public services as a way to ease the economic pressure on Argentines. ... Read More

Argentina: The agency in charge of the administration of state assets (AABE) has announced the sale of seven plots of land owned by the state as part of the Argentine federal government’s plans to raise additional public funds to finance national infrastructure works.... Read More