LatinNews Daily - 06 November 2018

Development: On 5 November, the lawyers of Brazil’s imprisoned former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) filed a new habeas corpus petition before the supreme court (STF), requesting Lula’s release.... Read More

Development: On 5 November, Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra denounced claims by former president, Alan García (1985-1990; 2006-2011), that his government is carrying out a coup as “irresponsible”.... Read More

* Two Venezuelan public officials who asked to remain anonymous have told Reuters news agency that Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro is trying to bring 14 tonnes of gold held in the Bank of England back to the country.... Read More

* The Brazilian association for wind energy (Abeeólica) has announced that Brazil has passed the 14-gigawatt (GW) mark of installed wind-power generation capacity.... Read More

Development: On 5 November the Alianza Social por la Gobernabilidad y la Justicia (Asgoju), a group of local NGOs, urged El Salvador’s 84-member unicameral legislature not to re-elect attorney general (AG) Douglas Meléndez, whose three-year term ends in January 2019.... Read More

* The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced a US$400m loan for a programme to facilitate the adoption and implementation of sectorial reforms and policies necessary to make the Dominican Republic’s electricity sector more efficient.... Read More

Development: On 5 November Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that a national consultation over the proposed construction of a new train line, known as ‘Tren Maya’, will take place between December and January.... Read More

*Mexico's President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said that he has successfully negotiated an agreement with 16 contractors over the cancellation of the Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de México (NAIM) international airport project.... Read More

Development: On 5 November Uruguay’s special prosecutor for crimes against humanity, Ricardo Perciballe, accused a former military officer of being co-responsible for the murder of a political prisoner in 1974 and requested his imprisonment.... Read More

* Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released figures which show that inflation in October reached 8.01% year-on-year.... Read More