LatinNews Daily - 03 December 2018

Development: On 1 December Gustavo de Hoyos, the president of the Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana (Coparmex) private sector lobby, criticised President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s inauguration speech describing it as “polarising” and “retrograde”.... Read More

Development: Over the weekend of 1-2 December, three marches began from the departments of Beni, Oruro, and La Paz to Bolivia’s capital La Paz, calling for President Evo Morales to respect the results of a 2016 referendum which rejected changing the 2009 constitution to allow him to seek a further term in office.... Read More

* Both Peru’s private and public sector agree that the country needs to be more competitive.... Read More

Development: On 1 December, Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro reaffirmed his criticism of environmental protection policies which he sees as being detrimental to the country’s agricultural industry and national sovereignty.... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (IBGE) has released third quarter economic growth, which show that seasonally-adjusted GDP grew 0.8% quarter-on-quarter in July-September 2018.... Read More

Development: On 2 December Zury Ríos, the daughter of Guatemala's late dictator Efraín Ríos Montt (1982-1983), announced her presidential bid ahead of the June 2019 general election.... Read More

* Honduras’s central bank has released a report which shows that in the first nine months of 2018, the country’s exports reached US$3.5bn, down 2.8% on the same period in 2017.... Read More

* In one of his last acts as president Mexico’s now former president, Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-December 2018), signed the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade accord that is to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) pending ratification by the respective legislatures of the three countries.... Read More

Development: On 1 December Argentina’s President Macri closed the G-20 summit of world leaders in Buenos Aires.... Read More

* Shinzo Abe has become the first Japanese prime minister to visit Paraguay.... Read More

Argentina: On 26 November the Argentine government led by President Mauricio Macri announced that the country would once again export beef to the US, after the US government banned Argentine beef exports 17 years ago over food safety concerns.... Read More