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LatinNews Daily - 07 September 2018
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Development: On 6 September, Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, was rushed to hospital after being stabbed in the abdomen during a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais state.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 6 September Peru’s justice minister, Vicente Zeballos, accused the main opposition Fuerza Popular (FP) party and the attorney general, Gonzalo Chávarry, of politically persecuting President Martín Vizcarra for calling for him to be investigated for corruption. ... Read More
Venezuela: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has signed a decree creating of a new technical commission tasked with restructuring the country’s state-owned oil firm, Pdvsa, and all of its subsidiaries.... Read More
Brazil
* Brazil’s national automobile producers association (Anfavea) has released new figures showing that the production of vehicles in the country has had its best August results in four years.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 6 September Jean Henry Céant, President Jovenel Moïse’s pick for Haiti’s new prime minister, named his proposed cabinet.... Read More
Honduras: The Honduran government led by President Juan Orlando Hernández has signed an agreement worth some US$254m to address poverty.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 6 September a mass grave containing 166 human skulls and other body parts, as well as personal belongings and identity cards, was discovered in the state of Veracruz in eastern Mexico.... Read More
* Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said that this government transition team is already preparing a new round of oil exploration and exploitation auctions to be conducted after he assumes office on 1 December.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 6 September Chile’s environment minister, Carolina Schmidt, announced five concrete actions to address pollution in the Quintero and Puchuncaví communes, in Valparaíso Region.... Read More
Argentina: US-based investment bank Morgan Stanley has released a new report in which it projects that Argentina’s domestic economy will contract by 2.3% this year and that the year-end inflation rate will reach 41.4%.... Read More
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- Risk of electoral tensions after stabbing in Brazil
- Peru’s executive complains of “political persecution” against President Vizcarra
- In brief: Venezuela
- In brief: Brazil
- Haiti’s prime minister-elect unveils his cabinet
- In brief: Honduras
- Mexican mass grave highlights challenge for López Obrador
- In brief: Mexico
- Chile gov’t-Enap spat over pollution
- In brief: Argentina