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LatinNews Daily - 05 November 2018

Main Briefing
Development: On 4 November the participants of the VII Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) denounced that the caravans of Central American migrants that are seeking to make their way to the US through Mexico are being mistreated by the Mexican authorities. ... Read More
Andean
Development: On 4 November Bolivia’s President Evo Morales urged the international community to intercede to “preserve the life” of Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas (2013-2017) who is staging a hunger strike after being transferred to a maximum security jail.... Read More
* Colombia’s national statistics agency (Dane) has announced that the consumer price index (IPC) in October was up 0.12% compared to the previous month, bringing the year-on-year inflation rate to 3.33%.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 3 November, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s decision to move the country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.... Read More
* Brazilian economists speaking to national daily O Estado de São Paulo say that the country’s GDP could grow by more than 3% in 2019, if President-elect Jair Bolsonaro successfully pushes forward with the economic reforms he has promised, notably a pension reform and the sell-off of state-owned companies.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 4 November the presidents of the Dominican Republic (DR) and El Salvador, Danilo Medina and Salvador Sánchez Céren respectively, arrived in the Chinese city of Shanghai to attend China’s International Import Expo (CIIE) which runs from 5 to 10 November.... Read More
* The Costa Rican government has announced the indefinite suspension of the 'El Diquís' hydroelectric megaproject, which is located in Buenos Aires canton, Puntarenas province, after seven years of delays and paralysis.... Read More
Mexico
* Mexico’s finance ministry (SHCP) has announced that the country’s economy is growing and that public finances are healthy at the close of 2018’s third quarter.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 4 November Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera announced he would send a letter to his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, in response to the decision by France’s office for the protection of refugees and stateless people (OFPRA) to authorise political asylum for Ricardo Palma Salamanca, a former member of the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez (FPMR) guerrilla group.... Read More
* Argentina’s central bank (BCRA) has released the latest instalment of its monthly survey of local economists, which shows a general consensus that the year-end inflation rate will reach 47.5%, 2.7 percentage points higher than forecast in October.... Read More
Washington Watch
Nicaragua: On 29 October, the outgoing US ambassador to Nicaragua, Laura Dogu, used a farewell speech before the Cámara de Comercio Americana en Nicaragua (Amcham) to launch a scathing attack on Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega.... Read More

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