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LatinNews Daily - 15 February 2019

Main Briefing
On 14 February, Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse gave his first speech since the mass protests calling for his resignation began a week ago.... Read More
Andean
On 14 February, the foreign minister of the de facto Venezuelan government, Jorge Arreaza, announced that the administration led by Nicolás Maduro has the support of over a dozen countries that are prepared to denounce before the United Nations (UN) the attempts by the US to overthrow the Maduro administration.... Read More
* Bolivia’s ministry of environment & water has announced that the water and sanitation cooperation fund (FCAS), a fund created by the Spanish agency for international development cooperation (AECID), will invest US$206m over ten years in Bolivia to provide drinking water and sanitation to more than 600,000 inhabitants of rural communities, small towns, and peri-urban areas.... Read More
Brazil
On 14 February, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro met with government ministers and secretaries to discuss the specifics of a proposed pension reform.... Read More
* China’s ministry of commerce has confirmed the imposition of anti-dumping tariffs on imports of Brazilian chicken products.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* Nicaragua’s former foreign minister (2007-2012), Manuel Coronel Kautz, is the new president of Nicaragua’s state-run oil firm Petronic.... Read More
Mexico
On 14 February, Mexico’s interior minister, Olga Sánchez Cordero, urged the federal senate to approve the plan to create a national guard on the government’s terms without the modifications made by the chamber of deputies.... Read More
* Mexico’s tourism minsitry (Sectur) has announced that the 'Tren Maya project' – a 1,525km railway that will link Palenque (Chiapas state) and the tourist resort of Cancún on the Caribbean coast - will be financed through a mixed investment scheme (public-private).... Read More
Southern Cone
On 14 February, Argentine unions and civil-society organisations marched in Buenos Aires in protest at the austerity measures being implemented by President Mauricio Macri’s centre-right Cambiemos coalition government, while an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission continues its review of the country’s economic performance. ... Read More
Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released new figures which show that the country received 2.76m international tourists in 2018 – up 7.5% year-on-year.... Read More

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