LatinNews Daily - 05 December 2018

Development: On 4 December a formal complaint of abuse of power was filed against Security Minister Patricia Bullrich in an Argentine federal court.... Read More

Development: On 4 December Ecuador’s Vice President María Alejandra Vicuña resigned her position definitively.... Read More

* Presidents Lenín Moreno of Ecuador and Iván Duque of Colombia have a signed a joint declaration in which their respective governments commit to creating a new trust fund to help finance social development projects along their shared border.... Read More

Development: On 4 December, Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said that he would consider overhauling the country’s pension system through piecemeal reforms. ... Read More

* Brazil’s national industry confederation (CNI), a private sector lobby, has found that the US is the country with which Brazilian exporters most want a trade deal, followed by Mexico, China, and Colombia.... Read More

Development: On 4 December the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) urged the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega to respect freedom of expression.... Read More

* Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela and Public Works Minister Ramón Arosemena have formally issued the order to proceed with the start of the US$1.5bn project to design and construct a fourth bridge over the Panama Canal.... Read More

Development: On 4 December, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed to demands from state governors that coordinators appointed by the federal government not intervene in matters of state security.... Read More

* International credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service has issued a statement warning of “mixed signals” on the part of the new administration led by Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador which took office on 1 December.... Read More

* Paraguay’s national chamber of deputies has given final approval to the 2019 draft state budget after the congressional budget committee incorporated modifications introduced by the senate.... Read More