LatinNews Daily - 10 September 2019

On 9 September, the second meeting of the European Union (EU)-Cuba Joint Council took place in Cuba.... Read More

On 9 September, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, criticised the Venezuelan government for failing to implement the recommendations of a report she submitted in July.... Read More

* Jhonny Maldonado, executive director of Bolivia's national registry service for minerals and metals trade (Senarecom), announced that in the first half of 2019 Bolivia received B$587.9m (US$85m) in mining royalties.... Read More

On 9 September, Brazil’s acting president Hamilton Mourão warned about the negative long-term effects that the US-China trade war will have on Brazil, despite short-term benefits to certain exports.... Read More

* Brazil’s minister for mines & energy, Bento Albuquerque, has said that he hopes that the draft law allowing for the privatisation of state-owned electricity company Eletrobras will be presented to congress by 20 September, and that the terms for privatisation will be established before the end of the year.... Read More

* Nicaragua’s central bank (BCN) has published a report detailing remittance flows for the 2nd quarter of 2019.... Read More

On 9 September, the acting commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Mark Morgan, acknowledged that Mexico has succeeded in curbing irregular migration to the US, but he added that the country needs to do more.... Read More

* Mexico’s economy minister Graciela Márquez Colín and Valentín Díez Morodo, the president of Mexico’s business council of foreign trade, investment and technology (Comce), have opened a new international business centre (Cisne) in Mexico City.... Read More

On 9 September, Alberto Fernández, the presidential candidate of the hard-line Peronist opposition Frente de Todos coalition, outlined a series of rules that his government would follow in developing Argentina’s economic policies should he win election in the 27 October general election.... Read More

* Argentina’s Production & Labour Minister Dante Sica and Brazil’s Economy Minister Paulo Guedes have signed a new automotive agreement, which commits Argentina and Brazil to gradual trade integration, culminating in free trade in the automobile industry by July 2029.... Read More