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LatinNews Daily - 06 July 2018
Main Briefing
Development: On 5 July, President Juan Manuel Santos called upon Colombia’s security forces to respond to an escalating wave of violence against social and community leaders, four of whom have been murdered in recent days.... Read More
Andean
Ecuador: A march against Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno and in support of the former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) under the slogan “be outraged Ecuador” has taken place in the capital, Quito.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 5 July, Boeing announced a deal to form a US$4.65bn joint venture with the Brazilian company Embraer.
Significance: For Boeing, the joint venture will allow the company to compete with Airbus in the market for smaller, 100-seat planes.... Read More
* Brazil’s labour minister, Helton Yomura, resigned on 5 July after the supreme court (STF) suspended him in relation to an investigation into alleged fraud in the registration of trade unions.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 5 July, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three top Nicaraguan officials under the Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.... Read More
El Salvador: Students from El Salvador’s state-run Universidad de El Salvador (UES) and unionists have staged protests outside the national legislative assembly against the privatisation of water.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 5 July, Mexico’s incoming president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced that Marcelo Ebrard would serve as his foreign minister when he assumes office in December.... Read More
* Mexico’s president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has announced that in a month he will present a plan to modernise the country’s six oil refineries and construct two new refineries.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 5 July, Paraguay’s President-elect Mario Abdo Benítez announced that Denis Lichi will serve as agriculture & livestock minister in his cabinet when he takes office on 15 August.... Read More
Chile: Chile’s Central Bank (BCCh) has revealed that its monthly economic activity index (Imacec) registered growth of 4.9% in May 2018 compared to the same month in 2017.... Read More
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- Surge of violence against Colombian social leaders
- In brief: Ecuador
- Boeing to form a joint venture with Brazil’s Embraer
- In brief: Brazil
- US sanctions key allies of Nicaragua’s Ortega
- In brief: El Salvador
- López Obrador names Ebrard as Mexico’s next foreign minister
- In brief: Mexico
- Paraguay’s Abdo Benítez names key minister
- In brief: Chile