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LatinNews Daily - 26 April 2018

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Development: On 25 April Ecuador’s attorney general’s office announced that it had opened a formal investigation into allegations that the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas provided illegal campaign financing for Ecuador’s former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017).... Read More
Andean
Peru: The head of Peru’s official exports and tourism promotion agency (PromPerú), Luis Torres, has said that Peru’s textile exports could increase by between 6% and 8% this year.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 25 April, Brazil’s federal public ministry (MPF) filed a lawsuit against US technology firm, Microsoft, to stop its 'Windows 10' operating system from automatically collecting users’ data.... Read More
* The public ministry of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state has freed 137 of the 159 suspects detained during a police operation to crack down on militias earlier this month.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 25 April thousands took to the streets in Costa Rica’s capital, San José, to protest against a fiscal reform legislative package promoted by the centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) government led by President Luis Guillermo Solís.... Read More
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Mexico
Development: On 25 April, the Untied Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) asked the Mexican government for further information about attacks on human rights defenders and indigenous people.... Read More
* The president of the Mexican confederation of national chambers of trade, services, and tourism (Concanaco), José Manuel López Campos, has said that Concancano has signed a collaboration agreement with Chinese automotive firm Shanghai International Autocity Group to promote the establishment of a new electric car manufacturing plant in Mexico that will supply cars to the domestic market.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 25 April, the second day of top-level meetings took place for the framework of Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera’s ‘national agreement for development and peace in the Araucanía’, where the indigenous Mapuche lay claim to ancestral land.... Read More
Argentina: The finance ministry has reported that it has successfully placed US$2.49bn in treasury bonds in the local market.... Read More

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