LatinNews Daily - 18 April 2019

On 17 April, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against Laureano Ortega, the son of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosarillo Murillo, and Banco Corporativo SA (Bancorp), a financial institution.... Read More

On 17 April, national deputies from Peru’s opposition Partido Aprista Peruano (PAP) accused the country’s attorney general’s office of being responsible for the death of former president, Alan García (1985-1990; 2006-2011), who shot himself that day as police arrived to arrest him in line with an arrest warrant issued against him.... Read More

* US National Security Advisor John Bolton has announced that the US government will be imposing economic sanctions on Venezuela’s central bank (BCV) that will limit the BCV’s access to US dollars.... Read More

On 17 April, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro once again argued that he will allow the country’s indigenous peoples to exploit agricultural and mineral resources within their protected territories.... Read More

* Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has announced that it will increase the price of diesel by R$0.10 (US$0.03) per litre in its refineries, to an average of R$2.25l (US$0.57) per litre, effective from 18 April.... Read More

* Panama’s stock exchange (BVP) has announced that the government has issued US$1bn worth of bonds on the local market – the highest issuance reported by the country on a given day.... Read More

On 17 April, Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) released the latest edition of its national survey on urban public security, which shows that 74.6% of the population feel unsafe living in their city.... Read More

* Mexico’s foreign ministry (SRE) has issued a satement in which it says that the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “regrets the US’s decision to apply Title III of the Helms-Burton Act for the first time ever”.... Read More

On 17 April, Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri announced a series of price controls and other economic measures for the six months leading up to October’s presidential election in a clear bid to bolster his re-election ambitions.... Read More

*Chile's President Sebastián Piñera has inaugurated new works with an investment of US$1.3bn at the copper mine, Minera Los Pelambres, Coquimbo Region, which he said will generate 3,200 new jobs in construction and operation.... Read More

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