LatinNews Daily - 12 July 2018

Development: On 11 July Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra announced that his government would launch an urgent reform of the national justice system.... Read More

Colombia: Colombia’s President-elect Iván Duque has named Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera as his finance minister when he takes office in August, following Duque’s victory for the right-wing Centro Democrático (CD) party in the presidential second-round run-off last month.... Read More

Development: In June Brazil’s steel exports to the US almost tripled in comparison with the same month the previous year.... Read More

*Brazil’s foreign trade chamber (Camex), a government body, has ordered technical studies to be conducted that could lead to Brazil taking a formal complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO) against China’s decision to impose restrictions on the import of Brazilian sugar and chicken meat.... Read More

Development: On 11 July students at Panama’s state-run university, Universidad de Panamá, and members of the Consejo Nacional de Trabajadores Organizados (Conato) union staged protests in the capital, Panama City, against the recent announcement by Panama’s public services regulator (Asep) of a rise in energy prices.... Read More

Guatemala: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean (Eclac) has released figures regarding the economic cost of the 3 June eruption of the Fuego Volcano, one of Central America’s most active volcanoes, which left 113 people dead and over 300 missing in Guatemala.... Read More

Development: On 11 July Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador unveiled a 12-point legislative plan which he will pass on to the newly elected federal congress for debate after its inauguration on 1 September.... Read More

*Mexico’s economy minister, Ildefonso Guajardo, has said that the negotiating teams from Mexico, the US, and Canada could resume talks regarding the North America Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) at the end of the month.... Read More

Development: On 11 July Paraguay’s President-elect Mario Abdo Benítez announced that his future public works & communications (MOPC) minister will be Arnoldo Wiens Durksen.... Read More

Argentina: The finance ministry has announced that it has successfully placed US$2.15bn in bonds in national and international markets.... Read More