LatinNews Daily - 16 October 2018

Development: On 15 October Peru’s attorney general Pedro Chávarry said that he is prepared to re-open the investigations into corruption in the awarding of the Chinchero airport contract.... Read More

* The Comunidad Andina (CAN), a customs union which comprises Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, has selected Héctor Quintero Arredondo as its new secretary general for the period 2018-2023.... Read More

Development: On 15 October, the Observatório da Intervenção, a monitoring body set up by the centre for security and citizenship studies (Cesec) at Rio de Janeiro’s Universidade Candido Mendes (Ucam), released its latest data on violence and homicide rates in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, with a focus on police deaths.... Read More

* Six leftist parties in Brazil have come together to form a democratic front, and signed a manifesto declaring their support for the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) presidential candidate Fernando Haddad in the 28 October run-off vote, in rejection of his opponent, far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro of the Partido Social Liberal (PSL).... Read More

Development: On 15 October Honduras’s traditional opposition party, Partido Liberal (PL), announced it would not re-join the United Nations (UN)-brokered dialogue table installed in August aimed at addressing the post-electoral crisis.... Read More

* According to El Salvador’s attorney general’s office (FGR), the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIU) has suspended El Salvador from the group as of 24 September.... Read More

Development: On 15 October the local media reported that a further ten bodies had been discovered in two mass graves in the municipality of Tonalá, in Mexico’s western state of Jalisco.... Read More

* Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, a spokesman for Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has unveiled the question that the López Obrador administration plans to put to a public consultation on the building of a new international airport to service Mexico City.... Read More

Development: On 15 October Sergio Massa, a moderate opposition leader in Argentina, criticised the decision by President Mauricio Macri to negotiate a large Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as “a mistake”.... Read More

* Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez has announced that Taiwan will donate US$150m to Paraguay over the next five years to go on infrastructure, education, and security, more than double the amount given to the previous administration.... Read More