LatinNews Daily - 31 July 2018

Development: On 30 July Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega presented a formal complaint before the Organization of American States (OAS), accusing it of seeking to interfere in his country's domestic affairs.... Read More

Development: On 30 July Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro assumed responsibility for the severe economic crisis afflicting the country and said that his government will have to change the country’s economic model in order to overcome the crisis.... Read More

Peru: Peru’s energy & mining ministry (Minem) has released a report which shows that in the first half of the year Peru registered a 9.8% increase in iron production compared with the same period in 2017.... Read More

Development: On 30 July, Jair Bolsonaro, the former army captain and right-wing presidential candidate in Brazil’s 7 October general election, said that Brazil’s electoral process was “under suspicion” in an interview with a local broadcaster TV Cultura.... Read More

*Brazil’s federal energy & mining ministry (MME) has authorised the construction of a second natural gas-fuelled thermoelectric electricity production plant at the Porto do Açu complex in Rio de Janeiro state.... Read More

Costa Rica: Costa Rica’s goods exports were up 6% in the first half of the year to reach US$5.72m according to the latest figures from Costa Rica’s official export promotion agency, Procomer.... Read More

Development: On 30 July Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador named Manuel Bartlett Díaz as the future head of the state-owned electricity firm Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE).... Read More

*According to the latest figures from Mexico’s finance ministry (SHCP), Mexico’s primary fiscal balance registered a M$121.52bn (US$6.55bn) surplus in the first half of the year.... Read More

Development: On 30 July Uruguay’s leftist ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition announced that it would not vote in favour of extending the time limit set for a congressional commission to investigate the various irregularities discovered in the national public healthcare system.... Read More

Argentina: Argentina’s federal government has issued a resolution eliminating the minimum air-fare requirements from 31 July.... Read More