LatinNews Daily - 27 September 2018

Development: On 26 September Argentina’s economy & finance minister, Nicolás Dujovne, announced that the Argentine government had reached an agreement over new terms for its Stand-By Agreement (SBA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).... Read More

Development: On 26 September Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro said he was willing to “reach out his hand...... Read More

In a press conference with foreign media, James Atkins, the president of Peru’s state-owned oil firm Petroperú, said that several companies had expressed interest in operating in conjuction with it Peru’s largest oil block, Block 192 (located in Loreto region), once Canadian oil exploration and production company Frontera Energy’s current contract ends in September 2019.... Read More

Development: On 26 September, eight of the 13 candidates in Brazil’s 7 October presidential election took part in a televised debate, during which Fernando Haddad, the candidate for the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), was once again the target of criticisms from his rivals.... Read More

Brazil’s electricity monitoring committee (CMSE) has decided that the country will stop importing electricity from Venezuela to the state of Roraima, at least until the end of the year, after the border state was successfully supplied with electricity for ten days by its four thermoelectric plants.... Read More

Development: On 26 September Honduras's opposition Partido Liberal (PL) announced it was withdrawing from the United Nations-brokered dialogue aimed at addressing the post-electoral crisis.... Read More

According to the most recent CID Gallup poll published in the El Salvador media, 45% of respondents would vote for Nayib Bukele who is running for the opposition Gran Alianza de la Unidad Nacional (Gana) party in the February 2019 presidential election.... Read More

Development: On 26 September, Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to establish a truth commission to investigate the disappearance in 2014 of 43 students from Iguala, in the state of Guerrero.... Read More

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has said that the US government does not plan to extend the 30 September deadline it has set for Canada to subscribe to the new terms for the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) that it has agreed with Mexico, and that if Canada does not adhere to the deal then the US will conclude a bilateral trade agreement with Mexico.... Read More

A Uruguayan court has ordered Uruguay’s state-owned oil firm Ancap to pay US$5.6m in compensation to Paraguayan firm Exor International Ltd, over a breach of contract case.... Read More