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LatinNews Daily - 25 February 2019

Main Briefing
On 23 February, at least a dozen people were killed and over 200 wounded on Venezuela’s borders with Colombia and Brazil after the Venezuelan armed forces refused to allow the entry of humanitarian aid packages into the country.... Read More
Andean
* Peru’s Prime Minister César Villanueva has hailed the decision by freight transport workers’ unions to lift a strike which it has been staged in various regions for six days.... Read More
Brazil
On 24 February, Brazil’s foreign ministry released a note condemning the acts of violence taking place on Venezuela’s borders with both Colombia and Brazil, and attributed responsibility for them to Nicolás Maduro, the leader of the Venezuelan government now considered illegitimate by much of the international community. ... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (IBGE) has released the results of its national household survey (PNADC), which show that 13 state capitals recorded the highest levels of unemployment in seven years in 2018.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 24 February, Cubans went to the polls to approve or reject a new constitution.... Read More
* Guatemala’s central bank (Banguat) has released new figures which show the country closed last year with a trade deficit of US$8.72bn.... Read More
Mexico
On 24 February, Mexico’s deputy minister for democratic development and social participation, Diana Alvarez Maury, declared that a public consultation held in the states of Morelos, Puebla, and Tlaxcala, on the operation of a thermoelectric plant, had been a success.... Read More
* Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced plans to create a new free trade zone (FTZ) in Chetumal city, Quintana Roo state, on Mexico’s southern border.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 25 February, Argentina's former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015) is scheduled to appear for questioning in one of seven legal cases in which she is implicated.... Read More
* Paraguay’s central bank (BCP) has reduced its monetary policy rate by 25 basis points to 5%.... Read More
Washington Watch
Brazil: At a 19 February news conference, Brazil’s presidential spokesman, General Otávio do Rêgo Barros, said that Brazil would follow the US’s lead in delivering humanitarian aid to Venezuela and that the US-Brazilian provision of aid would be coordinated.... Read More

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