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LatinNews Daily - 20 May 2019

Main Briefing
On 18 May, Argentina’s former president, Cristina Fernández (2007-2015), publicly announced that she would not be running for the presidency in the October general election but had decided to be the vice-presidential candidate of her former cabinet chief, Alberto Fernández (2003-2008).... Read More
Andean
On 17 May, Seuxis Paucias Hernández Solarte (‘Jesús Santrich’), a former commander of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) and peace negotiator, was released from prison in accordance with an order by the transitional justice system (JEP) only to be immediately rearrested by agents of the attorney general’s office.... Read More
* Peru’s environment minister Lucía Ruíz has announced that in June the government led by President Martín Vizcarra will present a new legislative initiative which regulates the use of single-use plastics.... Read More
Brazil
On 19 May, eleven people died during a shooting in a bar in Brazil’s northern state of Pará.... Read More
* The R$29.72bn (US$7.26bn) budget freeze announced by Brazil’s government in March will seriously affect over 400 federal programmes, according to an analysis carried out by independent organisation Associação Contas Abertas for the national daily O Estado de São Paulo.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 19 May, a leading private sector lobby, Cámara de Comercio, Industrias y Agricultura de Panamá (Cciap), urged Panama's outgoing President Juan Carlos Varela to include constitutional reforms in extraordinary congress sessions.... Read More
* The World Bank (WB) has announced three new projects for a total amount of US$162m in grants to improve the quality of health and education services and strengthen climate resilience in Haiti.... Read More
Mexico
On 17 May, US President Donald Trump announced that he would be lifting controversial tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Canada and Mexico.... Read More
* Mexican authorities are working to clear the country’s Caribbean beaches of sargassum, a type of macroalgae, as the algae’s increased presence has a negative impact on the local economy.... Read More
Southern Cone
* Gustavo Volpe, the new president of Paraguay’s private sector lobby Federación de la Producción, la Industria y el Comercio (Feprinco), has called for “critical and technical analysis to be maintained” with regard to the proposed tax reform, which the government unveiled on 9 May and is currently being considered by the senate.... Read More
Washington Watch
Brazil: On 8 May, US President Donald Trump issued a statement to the US Congress expressing his intent to “designate Brazil as a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA)”.... Read More

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