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LatinNews Daily - 15 August 2019

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On 14 August the value of the Argentine peso against the US dollar fell sharply for a third consecutive day to trade at around Ar$60/US$1.... Read More
Andean
On 14 August Shirley Franco, the head of the opposition Unidad Demócrata (UD) bench in Bolivia's chamber of deputies, was named vice presidential candidate for the Bolivia Dice No alliance ahead of the October general election.... Read More
* Copper export shipments from Peru's Matarani port have resumed after the port was blockaded for nearly three weeks by protesters who opposed the construction permit for Southern Perú Copper Corporation's (SPCC) 'Tía María' copper mining project in the southern region of Arequipa.... Read More
Brazil
On 14 August, the Rio de Janeiro state chapter of Brazil’s bar association (OAB/RJ) expressed its concern with the Rio state government’s public security policy.... Read More
* Bruna Serra Fernandes, director of monetary policy at Brazil’s central bank (BCB), has announced that the BCB will sell a total of US$3.845bn in foreign exchange reserves.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 14 August Panama’s attorney general’s office (AG) filed an appeal against a court’s decision to close the corruption case involving the Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht.... Read More
* The European Union (EU) has made €9m (US$10m) available in response to Haiti’s deteriorating food and nutrition situation.... Read More
Mexico
On 14 August, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed to extend his so-called ‘Republican austerity’ programme across all government bodies.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show the indicator for quarterly GDP in the tourism sector was down 0.1% in the first quarter of 2019 compared with the previous quarter, and down 0.8% on the first quarter of 2018.... Read More
Southern Cone
* The head of Paraguay’s national chamber of commerce and services (CNCSP), Ernesto Figueredo, has urged authorities in charge of defining the 2020 national expenditure budget for next year to respect the deficit limit of 1.5% of GDP, established in the fiscal responsibility law.... Read More

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