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LatinNews Daily - 14 January 2019

Main Briefing
Development: On 13 January, Juan Guaidó, the president of Venezuela’s national assembly (AN), denounced that agents from the national intelligence service (Sebin) had illegally detained him for around half an hour in an attempt to silence him.... Read More
Andean
* In an interview with Bolivia’s state media Abi, Hydrocarbons Minister Luis Alberto Sánchez has revealed that the government led by President Evo Morales plans to begin drilling 17 exploratory wells in the departments of Chuquisaca, Tarija, Santa Cruz, Pando, Beni, and La Paz in 2019.... Read More
Brazil
Development: On 13 January, the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) governor of Ceará state in north-eastern Brazil, Camilo Santana, ratified a series of laws aimed at combatting violence and organised crime.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics agency (IBGE) has released the latest figures of its consumer price index (IPCA) which show that monthly inflation in December 2018 was 0.15%.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Development: On 13 January Nayib Bukele, the presidential candidate for Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional (Gana)-Nuevas Ideas coalition, revealed his manifesto.... Read More
* The Dominican Republic (DR)’s tourism ministry (Mitur) has released new figures which show that a total of 6.56m tourists visited the DR in 2018, up 6.2% on 2017.... Read More
Mexico
Development: On 12 January, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that he will not change the measures that his government has put in place to combat oil theft, despite continued fuel shortages across the country.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has published figures which show a 0.6% fall in national industrial activity in November 2018 compared with the previous month while the year-on-year figure was down 1.3%.... Read More
Southern Cone
Development: On 13 January, Dardo Chiesa, the head of the Confederaciones Rurales Argentinas (CRA), one of Argentina’s four principal farmers’ associations, accused the government led by President Mauricio Macri of failing to offer sufficient assistance to agricultural producers affected by flooding in northern provinces.... Read More
* Chile’s international economic relations directorate (Direcon) has published a new report on the impact of free trade agreements (FTA) on Chilean trade policy.... Read More
Washington Watch
Brazil: In a 3 January interview with Brazilian broadcaster SBT, Brazil’s new President Jair Bolsonaro said he was open to hosting US troops on Brazilian soil.... Read More

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