LatinNews Daily - 15 October 2018

Development: On 14 October the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR), and the Organization of American States (OAS) signalled concern about a string of arrests of government protesters in Nicaragua.... Read More

Development: On 14 October, Colombia’s President Iván Duque called for the heads of states of coffee producing countries to unite and demand fairer prices for coffee growers.... Read More

* Peru’s national statistics institute (Inei) has released its latest economic figures, which show that the GDP increased by 2.25% year-on-year in August, slightly lower than the 2.31% increase registered in July and below market expectations.... Read More

Development: On 14 October, Brazil’s presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro of the Partido Social Liberal (PSL) posted a video on his social media channels in which he defends each individual’s right to make personal choices without interference from the state.... Read More

* A judge from Brazil’s supreme labour court (TST), Ives Gandra da Silva Martins Filho, has defended the labour reform implemented by incumbent President Michel Temer’s government last year, as part of its package of reforms aimed at combatting the country’s economic crisis.... Read More

* According to the Dominican Republic’s central bank (BCRD), monthly inflation in September 2018 was 0.08% compared to August 2018, bringing the year-on-year rate to 3.29%.... Read More

Development: On 14 October Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that one of his incoming government’s objectives is for the country to only extract sufficient oil to satisfy Mexico’s domestic market and to stop exporting the resource abroad.... Read More

* An official at China’s foreign ministry, Wang Xiaoyuan, has said that Chinese firms would be interested in helping develop the 1,500km ‘Tren Maya’ railway project proposed by Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More

Development: On 14 October thousands of demonstrators marched in Santiago de Chile in support of the Mapuche cause and to demand the release of “indigenous political prisoners”.... Read More

*  Director of Chile’s official trade promotion agency (ProChile) in Paraguay, Carlos Brunel Vergara, has said that Chile’s bilateral trade with Paraguay has increased by 15% so far this year compared to 2017.... Read More

Argentina: On 4 October, Argentina’s transport minister, Guillermo Dietrich, met representatives from top global financial institutions in the US, with the aim of securing finances for Argentina’s public work projects.... Read More