LatinNews Daily - 10 July 2018

Development: On 9 July, Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra called upon congress to investigate and ultimately remove senior members of the judiciary found to have committed grave misdemeanours, after audio recordings emerged of judges offering to sell their influence.... Read More

Colombia: Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has signed a pact, along with leaders of political parties and supreme court justices among others, which commits the signatories to protect the lives of social leaders and human rights advocates and condemns violence against them.... Read More

Development: On 9 July, the science journal Nature published a paper by Brazilian authors in which they argued that increased rates of deforestation in the country put Brazil’s commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change in doubt.... Read More

Brazil: Brazil’s national statistics agency (IBGE) has released new figures which show that the country’s inflation rate reached 1.26% in June 2018 compared with the previous month – the highest month-on-month rate recorded since January 2016.... Read More

Development: On 9 July, Guatemala’s attorney general (AG) María Consuelo Porras Argueta announced that she was opening a case to begin the initial stages of an investigation into President Jimmy Morales for alleged sexual assault.... Read More

Nicaragua: The national dialogue process between the government led by President Daniel Ortega and the opposition, which has been mediated by Nicaragua’s Catholic Episcopal Conference (CEN) and aims to find a solution to the crisis which began mid-April, caused by the state crackdown on anti-government protesters, has again been suspended.... Read More

Development: On 9 July, Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised that fuel and energy prices would not increase for the three years after he takes office on 1 December and would then start to fall.... Read More

* President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised to lift Mexico out of “economic stagnation” after a meeting on 9 July with the country’s powerful industrial lobby, the Confederación de Cámaras Industriales (Concamin).... Read More

Development: On 9 July, President Mauricio Macri marked the 202nd anniversary of Argentina’s declaration of independence by defending his government’s economic policy, while trade unions and social organisations joined some of the political opposition in staging demonstrations.... Read More

Chile: Chile’s international economic relations directorate (Direcon) has released new figures which show the country registered a US$5.5bn trade surplus in the first half of 2018.... Read More