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LatinNews Daily - 10 October 2018

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Development: On 9 October, Brazil’s numerous political parties began announcing where their support will lie for the 28 October presidential run-off between Jair Bolsonaro of the Partido Social Liberal (PSL) and Fernando Haddad of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT). ... Read More
Andean
Development: On 9 October Rubén Costas, governor of Bolivia's eastern Santa Cruz department, announced that the opposition Movimiento Demócrata Social (MDS) would present its own presidential candidate in the October 2019 general election.... Read More
* Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra has signed a decree formally calling for a national referendum to be held on 9 December on the four political and judicial reforms proposed by his government and recently approved by the national congress.... Read More
Brazil
* Norwegian metal company Norsk Hydro has announced that it will resume operations at half capacity in its Alunorte alumina refinery, located in Brazil’s northern state of Pará.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 9 October a San José tribunal declared illegal the strike by teachers against the fiscal reform proposed by Costa Rica’s centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) government led by President Carlos Alvarado.... Read More
* Leopoldo Guerra, the director of the citizen’s registry unit of Guatemala’s supreme electoral court (TSE), has announced the start of the process for cancelling the legal status of two small opposition political parties in relation to alleged illegal campaign financing - Unión del Cambio Nacional (UCN) and Encuentro por Guatemala (EG).... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 9 October, a group of around 100 unionised workers from Mexico’s culture ministry set up a protest camp outside the offices of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador to make a series of salary demands.... Read More
* Mexico’s state-owned oil firm, Pemex, has announced the discovery of seven new hydrocarbon deposits in two offshore wells in the Gulf of Mexico, which have the potential to add more than 180m barrels of oil equivalent (MMBOE) of proven, probable, and possible (3P) reserves.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 10 October the head of Paraguay's tax authority (SET), Fabián Domínguez, announced that the SET had opened an internal investigation into the allegations of tax evasion affecting Senator Javier Zacarías Irún and the previous SET administration’s failure to detect this.... Read More
* Paraguay’s central bank (BCP) has released a new report which shows that the country recorded a trade surplus of US$977.6m for the period January-September 2018.... Read More

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