LatinNews Daily - 15 April 2019

On 12 April the United Nations (UN) Security Council (UNSC) voted to end the presence of the UN Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (Minujusth) in October 2019.... Read More

On 13 April, Venezuela’s de facto president Nicolás Maduro marked the 17th anniversary of the restoration to power of his late predecessor Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) after a 48-hour coup by calling on the Bolivarian national militias to devote themselves to food production to help deliver an “economic miracle”.... Read More

* The Colombian government has announced the launch of an ‘impact plan’ aimed at mitigating the effects of the mass migration and border closures, consequences of the Venezuelan crisis, on Colombia’s border departments.... Read More

On 14 April, demonstrations took place in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in memory of Evaldo dos Santos Rosa, who was shot dead by members of the armed forces on 7 April, and to demand justice for his death.... Read More

* Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras lost R$32.4bn (US$8.35bn) in market value after President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed a planned increase in the price of diesel.... Read More

* El Salvador’s central bank (BCR) has released new figures which show that remittances to El Salvador reached US$1.29bn in the first quarter of 2019, up 5.9% on the same period in 2018.... Read More

On 12 April, the Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana (Coparmex), the business lobby that represents some of the country’s largest employers, called on national legislators to introduce changes to the labour reform initiative to ensure that it does not undermine business productivity and competitiveness.... Read More

* Mexico’s social security institute (IMSS) has reported that 48,515 formal jobs were created in March this year, bringing the accumulated number of new jobs to 269,143 in the first quarter of 2019.... Read More

On 14 April, Paraguay’s foreign minister, Luis Castiglioni, said that the visit to the country by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo was a sign of political backing for the government led by President Mario Abdo Benítez and its foreign policies.... Read More

* Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released new figures which show that the country’s unemployment rate in February 2019 was 8.4%, down from the 9.3% registered in February 2018.... Read More

Brazil: On 8 April, Brazil’s Vice President Hamilton Mourão met his US peer Michael Pence in Washington DC.... Read More