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LatinNews Daily - 13 June 2018

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Development: On 12 June, Mexico’s four presidential candidates participated in the third and final official televised debate ahead of election day on 1 July. ... Read More
Andean
Development: On 12 June, a group of supporters of Sergio Fajardo, the defeated presidential candidate of the Coalición Colombia centre-left coalition, announced that they would be backing Iván Duque, the presidential candidate of the right-wing Centro Democrático (CD) party, in the 17 June second-round presidential run-off.... Read More
Peru: Peru’s mining & energy ministry (MEM) and mining firm Southern Copper Corporation, which is owned by Grupo México, have signed a concession agreement for the Michiquillay mining project, which is located in Peru’s northern Cajamarca region.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 12 June, Brazil’s supreme court (STF) announced that it is to rule on 19 June on whether to try Senator Gleisi Hoffmann, the president of the leftist opposition Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), for corruption and money laundering in charges related to the ‘Operation Car Wash’ corruption investigations. Significance: Regardless of the merits of the case, condemnation by STF would feed into the PT’s narrative that it is being persecuted by politically-motivated judges.... Read More
* Fábio Kanczuc, a secretary of economic policy at Brazil’s economy ministry, has announced that the recent lorry drivers’ strike has caused US$4.28bn worth of damage to Brazil’s economy.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 12 June, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) sanctioned Dominican Republic (DR) Senator Félix Bautista, of the ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD), for engaging in corrupt acts.... Read More
Panama: Panama and China have officially launched negotiations in Beijing for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a year after Panama ditched Taiwan in favour of forging diplomatic relations with mainland China.... Read More
Mexico
* The Mexican confederation of industrial chambers (Concamin) has presented a national industrial policy plan to the economic teams of the four presidential candidates ahead of the 1 July general election.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 12 June, the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), Argentina’s main umbrella workers’ union, called for a 24-hour national general strike for 25 June against the government’s economic policies.... Read More
Uruguay: Uruguay’s foreign minister, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, has met with the Chinese ambassador to Uruguay, Wang Gang, to discuss plans to increase bilateral trade and encourage investment.... Read More

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