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LatinNews Daily - 07 June 2018

Main Briefing
Development: On 6 June the local press reported that US Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) had sent a bi-party bicameral letter to US President Donald Trump urging the US administration to make additional designations in line with the Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 6 June Gustavo Petro, the presidential candidate of the Colombia Humana leftist opposition coalition, appealed to all those in the political centre to vote for him in the 17 June second-round presidential run-off election.... Read More
Ecuador: Ecuador’s national statistics institute (Inec) has released figures which show the country’s inflation rate in May was -1.01% year-on-year.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 6 June, Brazil's defence minister, Raúl Jungmann, sent R$50m (US$13m) to tighten public security in Minas Gerais following a wave of violent crime.... Read More
*Brazil’s President Michel Temer opened up a new credit line worth R$194.3bn (US$50.8bn) for the agriculture sector for 2018-2019.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
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Mexico
Development: On 6 June Mexico’s agricultural committee (CNA), an agricultural sector lobby, said that the country should avoid rising prices at home by looking for alternative trade partners from the US.... Read More
*US President Donald Trump’s top economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, has called the tension over trade tariffs between the US and its close allies which include Mexico a “family quarrel”.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 6 June the Argentine government led by President Mauricio Macri called on the leaders of the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT) umbrella workers’ union to attend an emergency meeting today (7 June) to discuss their grievances.... Read More
Chile: Chile’s Finance Minister Felipe Larraín has announced that the right-of-centre Chile Vamos coalition government led by President Sebastián Piñera will commit to lowering the structural fiscal deficit by 0.2% of GDP per year which will reduce it from its current 2% of GDP to 1% of GDP by 2022.... Read More

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