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LatinNews Daily - 01 April 2019

Main Briefing
On 31 March, Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief-of-staff, told US news channel CNN that the US administration led by President Donald Trump is cutting off aid to Central America's 'Northern Triangle' countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras).... Read More
Andean
On 31 March, hundreds of people took part in impromptu demonstrations in cities around Venezuela protesting over the electricity outages and lack of drinking water that have been affecting large parts of the country.... Read More
* Following a three day visit to Bolivia by India’s President Ram Nath Kovind, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has revealed that India plans to invest US$13bn in the Bolivian hydrocarbon sector.... Read More
Brazil
On 31 March, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro arrived in Jerusalem, via Tel Aviv, for an official visit to Israel, where he held talks and signed cooperation agreements with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (IBGE) has released its latest unemployment figures, which show that unemployment in the three months to February 2019 had increased to 12.4%, up from 11.6% in the previous quarter (September-November 2018).... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado Quesada has opened the country’s largest solar farm which is located in Pocosol district, Alajuela province.... Read More
Mexico
On 30 March, Mexico’s national indigenous council (CNI) and the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) armed militant group issued a joint statement rejecting the public consultation of indigenous communities over the Programa de Desarrollo del Istmo de Tehuantepec infrastructure development project staged by the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on 30-31 March. ... Read More
* In a tweet, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has revealed plans to develop six oil refineries which are currently functioning at 30% capacity.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 30 March, Luis Lacalle Pou formally launched his campaign for Uruguay’s presidency for the main opposition centre-right Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos).... Read More
* Fancap, the workers’ union of Uruguay’s state-owned oil, petrol and alcohol company Administración Nacional de Combustibles, Alcoholes y Portland (Ancap), has announced a 24-hour strike to protest economic sanctions placed on them by Ancap.... Read More
Washington Watch
Central America: On 27 March, US Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen travelled to the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, where she met with security ministers from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador (Enrique Degenhart, Julian Pacheco, and Mauricio Landaverde, respectively).... Read More

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