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LatinNews Daily - 30 April 2018

Main Briefing
Development: On 29 April, Nicaragua’s 92-member unicameral national legislature created a truth commission to investigate the deaths which took place during the recent brutal government crackdown on anti-government protests.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 28 April, ‘Iván Márquez’ (Luciano Marín Arango), the former head of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) negotiating team in Cuba, urged Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos to take action to save the peace process.... Read More
Ecuador: Ecuador’s foreign trade ministry has reported that the country posted a US$261m trade surplus in the first quarter of the year.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 29 April, police moved to reinforce security in Brazil's southern state of Paraná after two supporters from the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) were attacked.... Read More
* Brazil’s social development minister, Alberto Beltrame, has announced that the government will boost the conditional cash-transfer programme 'Bolsa Família' used by 13m low income families in Brazil.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
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Mexico
Development: On 29 April, José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, the presidential candidate of Mexico’s ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), met with the governor of Chiapas state, Manuel Velasco Coello, and promised to promote the state’s economic development if elected in the 1 July general election.... Read More
* Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Pemex, has reported a net profit of M$113bn (US$6.1bn) between January and March 2018, a 29% increase on the same period of  2017.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 28 April, Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera announced his decision to desist in his efforts to appoint his brother, Pablo Piñera, as his government’s ambassador to Argentina.... Read More
Paraguay: The finance ministry has released new figures which show that the public debt reached US$7.68bn in the first quarter of the year, or 24.6% of the country’s GDP.... Read More
Washington Watch
Ecuador: On 25 April, Ecuador’s interior minister, César Navas, and the US ambassador to Ecuador, Todd Chapman, signed a bilateral agreement that will allow the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to work together with the Ecuadorean authorities’ anti-drug trafficking efforts.... Read More

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