LatinNews Daily - 23 October 2018

Development: On 22 October Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra vetoed a recently approved bill that would have seen former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) released from jail and placed under house arrest.... Read More

* The governments of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, who form the Andean Community (CAN), have agreed to work together to prevent the entrance to the region of the Fusarium oxysporum fungus, the cause of a disease sometimes known as 'Fusarium wilt' or 'Panama disease' (FOC TR4), which attacks the roots of banana plants.... Read More

Development: On 22 October Brazil’s presidential frontrunner, Jair Bolsonaro of the Partido Social Liberal (PSL), sent a letter to the longest-serving supreme court (STF) justice José Celso de Mello, in which he said that the STF is the “guardian of the constitution” and must be honoured by all.... Read More

* The Brazilian renewable energy subsidiary of Italian-owned Enel Group, Enel Green Power Brasil (EGPB), has begun the construction of a new solar power plant in São Gonçalo de Gurguéia, in Brazil’s north-eastern state of Piauí.... Read More

Development: On 22 October Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse replaced two key allies – his chief-of-staff Wilson Laleau and the general secretary to the presidency Yves Germain Joseph.... Read More

* Costa Rica’s finance ministry has released figures which show the country’s fiscal deficit reached 4.5% of GDP at the end of the third quarter.... Read More

Development: On 22 October Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador named the two individuals who will lead the defence ministry (Sedena) and the navy ministry (Semar) once he assumes office on 1 December.... Read More

* A local think-tank, the Centre for Economic Studies of the Private Sector (CEESP), has issued a report calling on the incoming Mexican government (which takes office in December) to properly define its fiscal objectives.... Read More

Development: On 22 October Chile's President Sebastián Piñera confirmed that the executive would call for the legislature to discuss “immediately” an initiative known as 'Aula Segura' ('safe classroom').... Read More

* Argentina’s finance minister, Nicolás Dujovne, has said that Argentina has succeed in reducing its fiscal deficit by 47% to 1.1% of GDP in the first nine months of the year compared with the same period last year.... Read More