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LatinNews Daily - 10 December 2018

Main Briefing
Development: On 9 December a majority of Peruvians that voted in the national referendum on a series of proposed judicial and political reforms overwhelmingly voted in favour of those promoted by President Martín Vizcarra.... Read More
Andean
* The Bolivian government has reached an agreement with China to export quinoa to the Asian country, beginning with a shipment of 40 tonnes (t).... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 9 December, Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro announced that Ricardo de Aquino Salles will be his environment minister, thus completing the 22-minister cabinet which takes office on 1 January 2019. ... Read More
* Brazil’s President Michel Temer has signed a decree declaring a federal intervention in the northern state of Roraima, which borders Venezuela.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 9 December Guatemala’s main opposition party, Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE), declared former First Lady Sandra Torres (2008-2012) as its presidential candidate ahead of the June 2019 general election.... Read More
* Costa Rica’s central bank has released new figures which show national inflation in November 2018 was 2.9%, year-on-year.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 7 December Mexico’s supreme court (SCJN) suspended the ‘Ley Federal de Remuneraciones’, which bars any public official from earning more than the president, while it deliberates on a constitutional challenge to the new law.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released the latest figures for the national consumer price index (INPC), which show that monthly inflation reached 0.85% month-on-month in November.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 8 December Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera announced that the special operations unit (Gope) of the Carabineros (militarised police) would withdraw from the southern region of La Araucanía, one of the main sites of the long-running Mapuche conflict stemming from indigenous claims to land.... Read More
* Uruguay’s union of petrol fuel sellers (Unvenu) has reported that there are no petrol stations with petrol fuel supplies in the Montevideo metropolitan area as result of the indefinite strike called by the fuel transport sector workers’ union (UTC) on 6 December.... Read More
Washington Watch
Argentina: On 31 November Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri and US President Donald Trump met on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Argentina.... Read More

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