LatinNews Daily - 06 December 2018

Development: On 5 December municipal government employees in Paraguay’s Ciudad del Este (CDE) confronted the police and tried to stop the newly designated caretaker CDE mayor from entering the municipal government building. ... Read More

Development: On 5 December Fernando Cuéllar, the head of the civic committee of the city of Santa Cruz, capital of the eponymous department, announced a strike in response to the previous day’s ruling by Bolivia's national electoral authorities (TSE) which allows President Evo Morales to run in the October 2019 general election.... Read More

* Colombia’s national statistics agency (Dane) has released figures which show that the monthly national inflation in November 2018 was 3.27% year-on-year.... Read More

Development: On 5 December, Brazil’s national statistics institute (IBGE) revealed that the number of Brazilians who live in poverty has increased by 2m from 2016 to 2017.... Read More

* The board of Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has approved its 2019-2023 Business and Management Plan, according to which the company will invest US$84.1bn in productive activities over the next five years, almost US$10bn more than during the last five-year period.... Read More

Development: On 5 December Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced that the government had relaxed two key regulations due to take effect on 7 December which affect 'cuentapropistas' (self-employed small entrepreneurs).... Read More

* International credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the Costa Rican government’s long-term issuer and senior unsecured bond ratings to 'B1' from 'Ba2' and changed its rating outlook to 'negative'.... Read More

Development: On 5 December Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, Mexico’s new deputy minister for human rights at the interior ministry (Segob), re-affirmed the federal government’s commitment to confronting the problem of forced disappearances in the country.... Read More

* Mexican opposition senators have filed a constitutional complaint against the recently approved ‘Ley de federal de renumeraciones de los Servidores Públicos’ law before the supreme court (SCJN).... Read More

* Argentina’s central bank (BCRA) has announced changes to the monetary policy strategy that it introduced back in September with the assistance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to counteract the domestic currency crisis and bring inflation under control.... Read More