LatinNews Daily - 07 November 2018

Development: On 6 November opposition deputies in Venezuela’s national assembly (AN) accused the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) government led by President Nicolás Maduro of running an extortion ring preying on Venezuelan gold miners in conjunction with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), the Colombian insurgent guerrilla group.... Read More

* Patricia Llombart, the European Union’s ambassador to Colombia, has unveiled a new European Union (EU) conservation and economic development programme for Colombia’s Amazonian region.... Read More

Development: On 6 November, Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro travelled to Brasília to meet with sitting officials as part of the government transition process, ahead of taking office on 1 January 2019.... Read More

* Brazil’s heavily indebted state-owned oil company Petrobras has recorded its highest net profits since 2011.... Read More

Development: On 6 November representatives from the attorney generals’ (AG) offices from Central America’s Northern Triangle (Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost cooperation.... Read More

* The latest figures from Guatemala’s central bank (Banguat) revealed that remittance inflows to the country reached US$7.6bn in the first ten months of 2018, up from US$6.8bn received over the same period in 2017.... Read More

Development: On 6 November charges of alleged wrongdoing were filed against the outgoing governor of Mexico’s eastern state of Veracruz, Miguel Angel Yunes Linares.... Read More

* A strike in the Mexican state of Michoacán’s avocado industry has been resolved after the Mexican association of producers and packagers of export avocados (Apeam) successfully mediated between producers and packagers.... Read More

Development: On 6 November Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera presented five legislative initiatives aimed at modernising and strengthening security.... Read More

* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has reported that industrial sector activity fell 11.5% year-on-year in September.... Read More