LatinNews Daily - 24 September 2018

Development: On 23 September the Venezuelan government demanded explanations from its counterparts from Chile, Mexico, and Colombia over the allegations that they were implicated in a suspected assassination attempt targeting President Nicolás Maduro last month.... Read More

* The president of Peru’s central bank (BCRP), Julio Velarde, has said that while he expects domestic mining sector activity to contract this year it would rebound in 2019.... Read More

Development: On 23 September, Paulo Guedes, the University of Chicago trained economist, posed for a photo with presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro in an effort to present a united front.... Read More

* Jair Bolsonaro, the presidential candidate of Brazil’s Partido Social Liberal (PSL) in the 7 October general election, has said that if elected he would privatise many of the country’s state-owned firms.... Read More

Development: On 23 September the Regional Office for Central America of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern about violence which took place during a protest march in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, which left one person dead, five injured, and ten people arrested.... Read More

* The government of the Dominican Republic (DR), led by President Danilo Medina, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China establishing a mechanism of political consultation.... Read More

Development: On 22 September Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed his disapproval of the construction of a wall along the shared border with the US while stressing his determination to preserve good relations with US President Donald Trump.... Read More

*Mexico's President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s pick for future deputy finance minister, Arturo Herrera, has told reporters that the next government is not ruling out the possibility that the tax authorities (SAT) apply a fiscal amnesty for those behind on their taxes.... Read More

Development: On 22 September Chilean authorities said that five new cases had been reported of individuals suffering from pollution in the Quintero and Puchuncaví communes, in Valparaíso Region.... Read More

* The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has released a new report on government spending, which found that Argentina has the highest level of inefficient government spending in Latin America.... Read More

Argentina: On 19 September Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri received a delegation of US Republican and Democrat legislators led by Edward Royce (R-CA), president of the foreign relations commission of the House of Representatives.... Read More