LatinNews Daily - 03 October 2018

Development: On 2 October El Salvador’s electoral authority (TSE) officially called the 3 February 2019 presidential election.... Read More

Development: On 2 October Venezuelan public sector workers took to the streets again in nationwide protests in demand of improved salaries and working conditions.... Read More

* Ecuador’s economy & finance ministry has announced that the country has reduced its fiscal deficit by US$1.66bn in the first nine months of 2018, a 57% reduction compared to the US$2.89bn deficit posted in January-September 2017.... Read More

Development: On 2 October, Brazil’s Frente Parlamentar da Agropecuária (FPA), the powerful agribusiness bloc in the federal congress, announced that it would officially be supporting Jair Bolsonaro of the Partido Social Liberal (PSL) in the 7 October presidential election.... Read More

* Brazil’s federation of automobile dealers (Fenabrave) has announced an increase in national vehicle sales this year.... Read More

* Panama’s private sector lobby Cámara de Comercio, Industrias y Agricultura de Panamá (Cciap) has expressed concerns about the consequences of a supreme court (CSJ) ruling issued on 24 September against a contract signed in February 1997 (Ley 9) by the state with mining company Minera Petaquilla, (at the time owned by Canada’s Petaquilla Minerals) for the extraction of gold and copper in Donoso district, Colón province.... Read More

Development: On 2 October protesters took to the streets across Mexico to honour victims of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City and demand a full investigation into the repression of the student movement of that year.... Read More

* The Mexican association of pharmaceutical laboratories (Amelaf), a business sector lobby, has warned that the new trilateral trade agreement reached by the Mexican, US, and Canadian governments (USMCA) to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) will negatively impact Mexico’s economy.... Read More

Development: On 2 October the municipal legislature in the Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este (CDE) voted in favour of a motion calling for the national government to intervene in the municipal administration amid allegations of mismanagement.... Read More

* Chile’s finance minister, Felipe Larraín has announced that the government has revised up Chile’s GDP growth forecast to 4.1% for 2018, up from the 3.8% announced in July.... Read More