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LatinNews Daily - 06 September 2018

Main Briefing
Development: On 5 September Colombia’s President Iván Duque said that his government will not continue the peace dialogue with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) insurgent guerrillas until the ELN releases all of its hostages.... Read More
Andean
Colombia: Colombia’s finance minister, Alberto Carrasquilla, has announced that the new government led by President Iván Duque seeks to reduce government spending by 7.5%-10% in the 2019 government budget to reduce the fiscal deficit.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 5 September, local pollster Ibope released its latest public opinion poll ahead of Brazil’s 7 October general election.... Read More
* Brazil’s health ministry announced that the country has 1,579 confirmed cases of measles this year, the majority of which are in the northern states of Amazonas (1,232 cases) and Roraima (301 cases).... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 5 September, 15 United Nations (UN) ambassadors attended a meeting called by the UN Security Council (UNSC) to discuss ongoing unrest in Nicaragua.... Read More
Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic’s (DR) central bank (BCRD) has released new figures which show that the DR’s monthly economic activity index (Imae) for July was up by 6.5%, bringing the average economic growth for the first six months of 2018 to 6.7%.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 5 September, a group of heavily armed men attacked a rural police patrol in Mexico’s southern Guerrero state, leaving one police officer dead and five injured according to a statement by Roberto Álvarez, security spokesperson for the Grupo de Coordinación Guerrero state government agency.... Read More
*Ascensión Medina Nieves, the president of Mexico’s college of civil engineers (CICM), has said that after carefully evaluating the two proposals to build a new international airport for Mexico City presented to it by President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government transition team, the CICM considers that the project to build a completely new airport (NAICM) is the best option.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 5 September the Paraguayan government led by President Mario Abdo Benítez announced it was moving its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.... Read More
Chile: Chile’s central bank (BCCh) has released its latest monetary policy report (IPoM) which increases its domestic economic growth projection for 2018 to 4.0%-4.5%, up from 3.25%-4.0% in June.... Read More

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