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LatinNews Daily - 06 June 2018

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Development: On 5 June, the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved a resolution that does not recognise the result of the 20 May presidential election staged by the Venezuelan government led by President Nicolás Maduro... Read More
Andean
Colombia: Colombia’s national federation of coffee growers has revealed that coffee production in May totalled 1.18m sacks (each sack weighing 60kg), up 32% compared with the same month of 2017 in which 901,000 sacks were produced.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 5 June, Brazil’s petrol fuels regulator ANP announced that it would hold a public consultation to determine how often fuel prices are updated.... Read More
* In one of the first polls published since the recent fuel strikes in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, the ultra-right presidential hopeful from the Partido Liberal Social (PSL), pulled away as the clear frontrunner.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 5 June, the Organization of American States (OAS) approved a declaration calling for an “immediate end” to the violence in Nicaragua.... Read More
Guatemala: The Guatemalan government led by President Jimmy Morales has announced a reconstruction plan in response to the devastation caused by the 3 June eruption of the Fuego volcano, which has affected three departments in particular: Sacatepéquez, Escuintla, and Chimaltenango.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 5 June, the frontrunner in Mexico’s presidential election, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the leftist Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party, tried to settle his differences with Mexican business leaders.... Read More
* Mexico’s economy ministry (SE) has released a detailed list of US products that will be subjected to import tariffs of 15%-25% in retaliation to the import tariffs on steel and aluminium recently imposed by the US government.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development:  On 5 June, Argentina’s human rights ombudsman (DGN) issued a statement arguing that the current provision on abortion in the national criminal code causes more damage to women than it prevents.... Read More
Chile: Chile’s central bank (BCCh) has published new statistics for its monthly economic activity index (Imacec) for April which registered growth of 5.9% compared with the same month in 2017.... Read More

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