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LatinNews Daily - 02 October 2018

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Development: On 1 October Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera hailed the same-day ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague on Bolivia’s claim that Chile had a legal obligation to negotiate with it a sovereign access to the Pacific.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 1 October Colombia’s President Iván Duque signed a decree allowing the police to seize even the smallest amounts of drugs in an attempt to crack down on micro-trafficking.... Read More
Peru’s investment promotion agency, ProInversión, has announced that the country’s transport & communications ministry has signed a concession agreement with private company Salaverry Terminal Internacional for the modernisation of the maritime port terminal at Salaverry, in La Libertad region.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 1 October, the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (EOM/OAS) to Brazil’s 7 October general election considered the threat of ‘fake news’ in the electoral campaign. ... Read More
Brazil’s industry, foreign trade & services ministry (MDIC) has reported that the country registered a trade surplus of US$4.97bn in September, with exports totalling US$19.09bn and imports US$14.12bn.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 1 October opposition figures like Lesther Alemán, Jean Carlos López (both students), and peasant farmer leader Francisca Ramírez called a “national consumer strike” to take place in Nicaragua tomorrow.... Read More
According to El Salvador’s central bank (BCR), the country’s exports in the first eight months of 2018 reached US$4.05bn, up 3.6% on the same period in 2017.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 1 October Yeidckol Polevnsky, the president of the leftist Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party, called on Mexico’s federal electoral tribunal (TEPJF) to annul the results of the 1 July gubernatorial election in Puebla state due to the various allegations of irregularities in the vote.... Read More
Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) announced that the country has received US$21.96bn in remittances from Mexicans residing abroad in the first eight months of 2018, up 11.07% on the same period the previous year.... Read More
Southern Cone
The value of the US dollar against the Argentine peso fell by 4% to Ar$40.74/US$1 on 1 October as Argentina’s central bank (BCRA) implemented its new exchange rate regime that incorporates currency bands.... Read More

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