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LatinNews Daily - 07 December 2018

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Development: On 6 December Bolivia’s interior minister Carlos Romero announced that a woman was killed during protests which took place in Riberalta municipality, Beni department.... Read More
Andean
* The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$300m guarantee for Ecuador to issue sovereign social impact bonds.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 6 December, evangelical pastor Damares Alves was announced as the future minister for women, family and human rights in the incoming government of Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro. ... Read More
* A Brazilian federal judge from a São Paulo court has ordered the temporary suspension of the Boeing-Embraer merger deal.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 6 December it was reported that Margarette May Macaulay, the commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), had called on the Honduran government led by President Juan Orlando Hernández to revoke the concession awarded to Honduran energy infrastructure conglomerate Desarrollos Energéticos SA (Desa) for the 'Agua Zarca' hydroelectric dam project.... Read More
* Costa Rica’s railway institute (Incofer) has approved the purchase of eight new trains from China’s CRRC Quingdao Sifang Co Ltd at a total cost of US$32.66m.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 6 December Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador submitted his shortlist to the federal senate of candidates to fill the vacant seat at the supreme court (SCJN).... Read More
* The latest economic figures released by Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) show that domestic household consumption increased by 0.5% month-on-month in September.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 6 December Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera requested that a former general director of the Carabineros militarised police, Bruno Villalobos, be charged with the fatal torture of a student in 1985.... Read More
* The Paraguayan chamber of maquiladora firms (Cemap) has reported that national maquila exports between January and November have totalled US$637m, a 55% increase compared with the same period last year.... Read More

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