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LatinNews Daily - 29 August 2018

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Development: On 28 August Honduras’s attorney general’s office (AG) ordered the seizure of assets belonging to members of the ruling Partido Nacional (PN) and traditional opposition Partido Liberal (PL), including both parties’ headquarters.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 28 August the Frente Unitario de Trabajadores (FUT), Ecuador’s main umbrella workers’ union, called for national demonstrations for today (29 August) against the recent economic policies implemented by the government led by President Lenín Moreno ... Read More
Venezuela: Venezuela’s banking superintendence (Sudeban) has announced that Venezuelans will from now on not be able to use their bank accounts from abroad unless they tell their bank where they are going and how long they will stay.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 28 August, the local press reported that the state prosecutor’s office in Brazil’s São Paulo state (MPSP) has formally accused Fernando Haddad, the former mayor of the city of São Paulo and vice-presidential candidate for the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) in the 7 October general election, of administrative wrongdoing.... Read More
* Brazil’s agriculture minister, Blairo Maggi, has said that the country’s soya and maize crops could be threatened by a judge’s recent decision to suspend the use of glyphosate, a herbicide.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Guatemala: Guatemala’s 158-member unicameral national legislature has appointed the five-member investigating committee which will consider whether to strip President Jimmy Morales of his immunity from prosecution in order to be investigated for illegal campaign financing.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 28 August, Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador met with Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, to discuss a development programme designed to reduce migration from Central America by promoting economic growth.... Read More
* The Borderplex Alliance, a US lobby group that promotes business and economic development in the US-Mexico border area, has issued a statement saying that it is “cautiously optimistic” about the recent announcement that the Mexican and US governments have reached a bilateral agreement on new terms for the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 28 August Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez said that he will ask his transport & public works minister, Víctor Rossi, to come up with a list of all Argentine construction firms operating in Uruguay which may have been involved in the so-called ‘Gloriagate’ scandal. ... Read More
Argentina: Argentina’s foreign ministry has announced that the country will start exporting soya oil to China again, three years after China suspended its imports of Argentine soya oil allegedly in response to an increase in its national production.... Read More

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