LatinNews Daily - 27 June 2018

Development: On 26 June Mexico’s national electoral institute (INE) and the federal electoral tribunal (TEJPF) called on all candidates taking part in the 1 July general election and the general public to accept the results of the vote whatever they may turn out to be.... Read More

Development: On 26 June Bolivia’s communications minister, Gisela López, reiterated a call for dialogue with authorities from Universidad Pública de El Alto (Upea), the public university of El Alto, La Paz department.... Read More

Andean: The Andean community of nations (CAN) trade bloc, which comprises Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, has announced that international air traffic reached 30m passengers in 2017.... Read More

Development: On 26 June, US Vice President Michael Pence paid an official visit to Brasília, where he called on Brazil to do more to deal with Latin America’s migrants.... Read More

*The Agencia Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (Aneel), Brazil’s electricity sector regulator, has approved the takeover of energy company Eletropaulo by Italian firm Enel.... Read More

Development: On 26 June, Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado, who took office on 8 May for a four-year term, issued a decree establishing seven strategic priority areas for his centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) government to address.... Read More

Nicaragua: Nicaragua’s state-owned oil company, Empresa Nicaragüense de Petróleo (Petronic), has announced that Norwegian oil firm Statoil (which rebranded as Equinor on 15 May) hopes to confirm the existence of 300m “recoverable” barrels of oil off the country’s Pacific coast.... Read More

* US dairy producers have requested that the US tariffs on Mexican steel and aluminium products, which were announced on 31 May, be lifted by the US administration.... Read More

Development: On 26 June Uruguay’s interior minister, Eduardo Bonomi, met the council of mayors to discuss ways in which to address deteriorating public security.... Read More

Argentina: Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released figures which show that economic activity in Argentina contracted by 0.9% in the month of April compared with the same month in 2017.... Read More