LatinNews Daily - 05 February 2019

On 4 February, deputies from Uruguay’s centre-right opposition Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos) urged the Frente Amplio (FA) leftist coalition government led by President Tabaré Vázquez to provide a full explanation over the claims that the de facto Venezuelan government led by Nicolás Maduro was trying to transfer money out of Venezuela and deposit it in Uruguay’s secretive banking system.... Read More

On 4 February, Colombia’s defence minister, Guillermo Botero, revealed that 14 dissidents from the demobilised Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas had been killed in a security operation in southern Colombia.... Read More

* Bolivia’s state-run oil company, Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), has announced that it will invest over US$400m in the construction of a storage plant and the laying of a pipeline connecting Bolivia with the Peruvian city of Ilo (Moquegua region).... Read More

On 4 February, Justice Minister Sergio Moro, presented a new bill outlining his proposals to reduce crime in Brazil, a country that saw a world record of 64,000 homicides in 2017.... Read More

* Brazil’s national oil and gas sector regulator, ANP, has released new figures which show that the country produced 944.1m barrels of oil in 2018 – a 1% year-on year fall compared to 2017.... Read More

On 4 February, Haiti's government-owned public utility Electricité d'Haïti (Ed’H) issued a press release which said that electricity rationing would continue in the capital Port-au-Prince.... Read More

* The Central American bank for economic integration (BCIE) has announced that Spain’s debt conversion programme with Honduras, (which the BCIE administered), has officially concluded.... Read More

On 5 February, Pedro Carrizales, a deputy representing Mexico’s ruling left-wing coalition Juntos Haremos Historia (JHH) in the state congress of San Luis Potosí, survived an armed attack while driving.... Read More

* Gabriel Villaseñor, the president of Mexico’s association of producers and packagers of export avocados (Apeam), has announced that the Mexican state of Michoacán set a new record with the shipment of 121,000 tonnes (t) of avocados to the US for Super Bowl LIII – compared with the 100,000t recorded last year.... Read More

* Paraguay’s finance ministry has announced the issuance of US$500m in 31-year bonds, with an interest rate of 5.4%.... Read More