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LatinNews Daily - 21 September 2018

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Development: On 20 September Bolivia’s electoral authorities (TSE) announced that opposition organisation Soberanía y Libertad (Sol.bo) would not receive its credentials in order to run as a party in the October 2019 general election.... Read More
Andean
* Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has announced the launch of a new ‘bio-pay’ payment system that will be implemented for the sale of petrol fuels at service stations across the country.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 20 September, the presidential candidate of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) party in Brazil’s 7 October general election, Fernando Haddad, was targeted by rivals in his first appearance in a presidential debate.... Read More
* Brazil’s agriculture & livestock minister, Blairo Maggi, has signed a new memorandum of understanding with his Chilean counterpart, Antonio Walker, allowing for the opening of a bilateral organic food market.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 20 September thousands of people took to the streets in Guatemala’s capital, Guatemala City, and other departments calling for President Jimmy Morales to step down.... Read More
* The head of Nicaragua’s chamber of tourism (Canatur), Lucy Valenti, has told reporters that the country has lost some US$400m in tourism revenue as a result of the crisis caused by the government crackdown on protesters which began in mid-April.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 20 September the head of the human rights commission in Mexico’s Jalisco state, Alfonso Hernández, accused the state government of manipulating its murder figures to try to hide the true extent of violence in the state.... Read More
* The latest domestic consumption figures from Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) show that private sector consumption has fallen by 0.1% in the second quarter of the year compared with the first quarter.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 20 September Argentina’s economy & finance minister, Nicolás Dujovne, expressed the government’s commitment to a floating exchange rate during an appearance before the budgetary and finance commission of the federal lower chamber of congress as part of the 2019 draft budget debate.... Read More
* Paraguay’s deputy foreign relations minister, Juan Ángel Delgadillo, has announced that the government led by President Mario Abdo Benítez has established a new multi-sectorial commission that will be tasked with coordinating all the initiatives necessary for Paraguay to become a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).... Read More

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