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LatinNews Daily - 17 October 2018

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Development: On 16 October US President Donald Trump threatened to cut off financial aid to Central America's so-called ‘Northern Triangle’ (Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala) if their respective leaders fail to stop illegal migration.... Read More
Andean
Development: On 16 October the United Nations (UN) special representative for Venezuelan refugees and migrants, Eduardo Stein, called for a more concerted regional and international response to the exodus of people fleeing the economic crisis in Venezuela.... Read More
* Ecuador’s national statistics and census institute (Inec) has revealed that the national unemployment rate was 4% in September, representing no significant change to the rate recorded the same month last year (4.1%).... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 16 October, the president of Brazil’s Partido Democrático Trabalhista (PDT), Carlos Lupi, criticised the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), whose candidate Fernando Haddad is running in the second round of the presidential election on 28 October, for lacking self-criticism and never having backed anyone else. ... Read More
* Brazilian power distribution company Elektro, part of the Neoenergia group (which is owned by Spanish firm Iberdrola), and Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia have partnered to deliver a pioneering smart grid project in parts of São Paulo state, in and around the city of Atibaia.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* Guatemala’s 158-member unicameral national legislature has voted not to strip President Jimmy Morales of his immunity from prosecution in order to be investigated for illegal campaign financing involving the ruling Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) party in the 2015 general election.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 16 October, Isabel Miranda de Wallace, a respected activist and president of local NGO Alto al Secuestro, criticised Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador over a perceived lack of clarity on future security policy.... Read More
* US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has announced that the new North American trade agreement recently reached by Mexico, Canada, and the US will not be voted on by the US Congress until next year.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 16 October Elisa Carrió, a national deputy in Argentina’s federal chamber of deputies, presented a motion calling for the impeachment of Justice Minister Germán Garavano for dereliction of duty.... Read More
* More than 3,000 workers from Chile’s state-owned oil company Empresa Nacional de Petróleo (Enap) have occupied two oil refineries amid an ongoing controversy over industrial pollution.... Read More

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