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LatinNews Daily - 04 September 2018

Main Briefing
Development: On 3 September Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri announced that his government will be adopting a series of emergency economic measures and conducting a major ministerial reorganisation in a bid to resolve the country’s currency and market confidence crisis.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 3 September thousands of coca producers (cocaleros) from Bolivia’s traditional Yungas coca producing area (La Paz department) marched in the capital, La Paz.... Read More
Venezuela: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has announced that the new petrol fuel pricing scheme will come into effect in the country’s eight border states starting from 3 September.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 3 September, the electoral coalition led by Brazil’s leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) party filed a criminal complaint before the supreme court (STF) against right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro for the crimes of electoral insult, threat, and incitement to crime.... Read More
* Brazil’s culture ministry (Minc) has announced that the federal government will immediately release R$10m (US$2.4m) in funds for the emergency restructuring of the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, the country’s oldest museum that was devastated by a fire on the night of 2 September.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 3 September Costa Rica’s main business lobby, Unión Costarricense de Cámaras y Asociaciones del Sector Empresarial Privado (Uccaep), called on the centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) government led by President Carlos Alvarado to hold a dialogue with the unions.... Read More
Guatemala: Guatemala’s constitutional court (CC) has upheld the suspension of a July 2017 ruling by the supreme court (CSJ) of a mining licence for the Escobal silver mine, one of the largest in the world, which is owned by Canada’s Tahoe Resources.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 3 September Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto presented his final Informe (state-of-the-nation address) before he hands over power to Andrés Manuel López Obrador on 1 December.... Read More
* Mexico’s outgoing President Enrique Peña Nieto has delivered his sixth and final state-of-the-nation address before the federal congress, in which he highlighted the positive economic growth achieved during his six-year term.... Read More
Southern Cone
Uruguay: Uruguay XXI, the country’s official investment and export promotion agency, has released figures that show that Uruguayan exports increased by 2.1% in August compared to the same month last year.... Read More

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