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LatinNews Daily - 02 May 2018

Main Briefing
Development: On 1 May, thousands of protesters campaigned to free Brazil's jailed former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) from the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) on International Labour Day.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 1 May, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales promulgated decrees establishing a 5.5% general salary increase and a 3% increase in the national minimum wage for this year.... Read More
Venezuela: Panama’s Compañía Panameña de Aviación (Copa), one of Latin America’s leading airlines, has resumed operations to Venezuela.... Read More
Brazil
* Brazil's President Michel Temer has said that the minister for national integration, Antonio de Pádua, will help rehouse victims of a fire that destroyed a 24-storey building in the cit of São Paulo on 1 May.  Around 400 squatters were thought to be living in the building, located in the central Largo do Paissandu square.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 1 May, El Salvador’s 84-member unicameral national legislature elected national deputy Norman Quijano of the main right-wing opposition Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) party as its new president.... Read More
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Mexico
Development: On 1 May Ricardo Anaya, the presidential candidate of the Right-Left Por México al Frente opposition coalition in the 1 July general election, said that if elected he would increase the country’ minimum wage by 115% to M$160 (US$10.00) per day.... Read More
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Southern Cone
Development: On 1 May, Uruguay’s umbrella workers’ union, Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores- Convención Nacional de Trabajadores (Pit-Cnt), called on the government to reduce local electricity tariffs as a way to ease the tax burden on workers and improve their situation. ... Read More
Paraguay: Héctor Cristaldo, the president of the Unión de Gremios de la Producción (UGP), a local agricultural producers’ grouping, has expressed concerns that the current month-long drought in the country is going to negatively impact some of Paraguay’s main export crops such as maize and soya.... Read More

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