LatinNews Daily - 08 May 2019

On 7 May, Guatemala's ruling conservative Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) issued a statement insisting that its presidential candidate Estuardo Galdámez, a national deputy, is innocent of allegations issued the previous day by the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) and the attorney general’s office (AG).... Read More

On 7 May, Venezuela’s supreme court (TSJ) called for the immunity from prosecution of seven opposition national deputies to be lifted so that they can be tried for the accusations of treason levelled against them by the de facto Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) government led by Nicolás Maduro.... Read More

* The International Labour Organization (ILO) has announced a US$2m investment for programmes promoting the social integration and inclusion into the labour market of displaced Venezuelan refugees.... Read More

On 7 May, Renata Souza, a deputy in Rio de Janeiro’s state legislative assembly (Alerj), said that she had denounced the public security policy promoted by Rio de Janeiro state governor Wilson Witzel to the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations (UN).... Read More

* Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has recorded a net income of R$4bn (US$1bn) in the first quarter of 2019, a 92% increase on its income in the last quarter of 2018.... Read More

* Costa Rica’s national statistics institute (Inec) has released new figures which show that the national unemployment rate was 11.3% in the first quarter of 2019.... Read More

On 7 May, the US Department of Commerce announced the termination of the 2013 Suspension Agreement on Fresh Tomatoes from Mexico, which regulated and facilitated Mexican exports of fresh tomatoes to the US.... Read More

* Mexico’s Iberdrola México SA, owned by Spanish energy company Iberdrola, and the confederation of Mexican industrial chambers (Concamin) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which seeks to strengthen Mexican industry through a strategic alliance.... Read More

On 7 May, Uruguay’s national chamber of deputies unanimously approved the resignation of deputy Daniel Placeres of the Frente Amplio (FA) leftist ruling coalition.... Read More

* A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headed up by Roberto Cardarelli arrived in Argentina on 8 May “in the context of the fourth review of Argentina’s economic plan that supports the 36-month Stand-By Agreement".... Read More