LatinNews Daily - 01 October 2018

Development: On 29 September, Brazilians took to the streets under the unifying cry of ‘ele não’ ('not him') to protest against Jair Bolsonaro of the Partido Social Liberal (PSL), the far-right candidate and frontrunner in the 7 October presidential election.... Read More

Development: On 30 September candidates running for mayor of Lima participated in the second and final debate organised by the national electoral council (JNE) ahead of Peru’s municipal and regional elections on 7 October.... Read More

The Bolivian government led by President Evo Morales has inaugurated the eighth line of the cable car linking La Paz and El Alto cities, La Paz department.... Read More

Brazil’s national statistics agency (IBGE) has released the latest unemployment figures for the third quarter of 2018, which show a slight decrease in Brazil’s unemployment rate.... Read More

Development: On 29 September the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expressed concerns about a press release issued the day before by the Nicaraguan police (PNN), warning that it criminalises anti-government protest.... Read More

El Salvador’s finance ministry has presented the 84-member unicameral national legislature with the government’s proposed budget for 2019.... Read More

Development: On 30 September Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray Caso, celebrated the announcement by Canada that it had agreed to subscribe to a new trilateral trade agreement with the US and Mexico that will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). ... Read More

Mexico’s finance ministry (SHCP) has cited the latest risk report from JP Morgan’s Emerging Bond Market Index (EMBI+) which shows that its country risk indicator for Mexico stood at 180 points on 28 September, down three base points compared with the figure for the previous week and down eight base points on the score registered at the end of 2017.... Read More

Development: On 30 September Sergio Massa, the leader of the Frente Renovador (FR) moderate faction of Argentina’s main opposition Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists), said that the 2019 draft budget presented by the government led by President Mauricio Macri to the federal senate is “horrible”.... Read More

Analysts interviewed by the Argentine press have said that they expect that the market will “test” the new exchange rate regime that Argentina’s central bank (BCRA) has announced that it will implement from 1 October.... Read More

Argentina: On 25 September Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri said that there were zero chances of Argentina defaulting on its external debts thanks to the support that his government has been receiving from other countries, especially the US.... Read More