LatinNews Daily - 03 April 2019

On 2 April, Venezuela’s national constituent assembly (ANC) voted in favour of subjecting the opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president, Juan Guaidó, to prosecution for having violated a court order banning him from leaving the country.... Read More

* The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac) has revised its economic growth forecast for Bolivia for 2019 increasing it to 4.4% up from 4.3%.... Read More

On 2 April, Rio de Janeiro city's municipal council voted 35 to 14 in favour of initiating impeachment proceedings against the mayor, Marcelo Crivella.... Read More

* According to Brazil’s national statistics institute (IBGE), industrial production increased by 0.7% in February with respect to January, interrupting three consecutive months of decline in industrial production.... Read More

On 2 April, Panama’s trade & industry minister Eduardo Palacios presented a bill before the 71-member unicameral national legislature which would ratify the contract between the state and Minera Panamá, the local subsidiary of Canada’s First Quantum Minerals Ltd, regarding the development and operation of the Cobre Panamá copper mining project.... Read More

* El Salvador’s economy ministry (Minec) has released figures which show that El Salvador’s GDP grew 2.54% in 2018 – the highest rate of the last five years.... Read More

On 2 April, Mexico’s foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard expressed confidence that the US government led by President Donald Trump would not shut down the shared border.... Read More

* Mexico’s finance ministry (SHCP) has made its second debt issue this year, placing two new reference bonds in the international market amounting to €2.5bn (US$2.8bn).... Read More

On 2 April, Sergio Massa, leader of the Frente Renovador (FR) moderate faction of Argentina’s main opposition Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists) party, held an event in Buenos Aires which served to launch his campaign as a candidate in the PJ primaries due in August, ahead of the October presidential election.... Read More

* Chile’s central bank (BCCH) has reduced its forecast for Chile’s GDP growth this year by 0.25 percentage points, situating it between 3% and 4%.... Read More