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LatinNews Daily - 11 June 2019

Main Briefing
On 10 June, the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government led by Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega said it had released 50 political prisoners under a new amnesty law.... Read More
Andean
On 10 June, opposition groups took to the streets of Bolivia’s capital La Paz to demand a clean and fair general election on 20 October.... Read More
* Ecuador’s economy & finance ministry has announced that it will launch an offer to buy back its 2020 bond in a liability management operation that will be financed with the issuance of a new bond maturing in 2029.... Read More
Brazil
On 10 June, Brazil’s national council of public prosecutors (CNMP) announced that it was launching proceedings to investigate allegations that prosecutors working on the ‘Lava Jato’ corruption investigation had committed ethical violations and engaged in potentially illegal practices throughout the case.   ... Read More
* Brazil’s council of coffee exporters (Cecafé) has released its monthly report on exports which shows that the country exported over 3.5m sacks of coffee (1 sack = 60 kg) in May this year, a 103.5% increase on last May’s export volumes and a new record for the month of May.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* Honduras’s central bank (BCH) has released new figures which show that inflation in May 2019 was 5.14% year-on-year.... Read More
Mexico
On 10 June, Mexico’s foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, denied that the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had a signed a secret migration agreement with the US beyond what has already been made public.... Read More
* Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has met with Lakshmi Mittal, the president of ArcelorMittal SA, the world’s largest steel manufacturing corporation which owns the Lázaro Cárdenas-Las Truchas steel mill in Mexico’s Michoacán State.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 10 June, Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri held a private meeting with his Colombian counterpart Iván Duque during Duque’s first state visit to the Southern Cone country.... Read More
* The Paraguayan government has announced an injection of over US$1.5bn into the local economy for immediate use in public investment, employment, and social programmes.... Read More

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