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LatinNews Daily - 13 June 2019

Main Briefing
On 12 June, at an event marking the 24th anniversary of the creation of the national police (PNd’H), Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse insisted that he was not corrupt, adding that anyone who faced accusations of misusing public funds should present themselves before the courts.... Read More
Andean
On 12 June, Venezuela’s political opposition denounced that the supreme court (TSJ) had issued new orders calling for the congressional immunity of opposition deputies José Guerra and Tomás Guanipa to be lifted so that they can be prosecuted for their suspected involvement in the efforts to oust the de facto president, Nicolás Maduro.... Read More
* Ecuador’s energy & natural resources minister, Carlos Pérez, and Jason Ward, the executive president of SolGold, an Australian mining company, have announced the results of the Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) of the 'Cascabel' second-generation mining project in Imbabura province which showed that the 'Alpala' deposit on the Cascabel site would become the world’s largest underground mine of silver, the third biggest underground gold mine, and sixth biggest copper mine.... Read More
Brazil
On 12 June, The Intercept Brasil revealed new excerpts of leaked messages between now-Justice Minister Sérgio Moro and prosecutors from the ‘Lava Jato’ corruption probe taskforce, which implicate supreme court (STF) justice Luiz Fux in the allegations of wrongdoing.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has revealed that retail sales fell 0.6% in April this year compared to March, with a decrease in five of the eight observed retail sectors.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* In a press conference, Panama’s Economy & Finance Minister Eyda Varela de Chinchilla expressed hopes that the new Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD) administration, which will take office next month led by President-elect Laurentino Cortizo, would continue with President Juan Carlos Varela’s infrastructure agenda.... Read More
Mexico
On 12 June, Mexico’s foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, announced that the Mexican government has established a “permanent dialogue” with its counterparts from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala to discuss ways in which to tackle the issue of illegal migration from Central America through Mexico to the US.... Read More
* The Mexican senate’s finance & public credit committee has approved an opinion on the agriculture and intellectual property agreements drafted in US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) regional trade deal that is currently in the process of being ratified by Mexico's legislature.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 12 June, Uruguay’s Labour Minister Ernesto Murro argued that Uruguay should not be on the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) so-called ‘blacklist’ of countries which do not respect international labour conventions and labour rights, where its was placed the previous day by the ILO’s Committee of Experts.... Read More
* The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$40m loan to finance a support programme for the integrated management of public expenditure in Argentina.... Read More

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