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LatinNews Daily - 11 September 2019
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On 10 September Guatemala’s constitutional court (CC) announced that it had admitted a request by President Jimmy Morales to revoke appeals which temporarily suspend a migration agreement signed with the US on 26 July.... Read More
Andean
On 10 September Venezuela’s Bolivarian armed forces (FANB) were deployed to the shared border with Colombia, although the “military exercises” ordered last week by de facto president, Nicolás Maduro, after he declared an “amber alert” in the face of “the threat of Colombian aggression”, did not take place.... Read More
* Colombia’s top administrative court has upheld the decision to maintain a moratorium on the use of fracking.... Read More
Brazil
On 10 September Carlos Bolsonaro, a Rio de Janeiro city councillor and son of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, faced a backlash for a tweet in which he said that Brazil would not reach desired change through democratic channels.... Read More
* Brazil’s national oil & gas regulatory agency (ANP) has completed the first round of a new kind of public bid, known as the permanent offer, which awards concessions for exploiting blocks and oil fields with marginal accumulations with no time limit.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* US risk insight company KCC has put the cost of the damage for the Bahamas wreaked by Hurricane 'Dorian' at around US$7bn.... Read More
Mexico
On 10 September, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard declared that the “the risk of a confrontation between the US and Mexico is increasingly distant” after his “positive and friendly” meeting with a delegation led by US Vice President Michael Pence.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show that monthly inflation in August 2019 was -0.2%, bringing the year-on-year rate to 3.16%.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 10 September affiliates of the Asociación de Trabajadores del Estado (ATE) public sector workers union staged a 24-hour strike and protest march in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, to demand that the government adopt more emergency economic measures to alleviate the effects of the domestic economic crisis.... Read More
* Uruguay’s Economy & Finance Minister Danilo Astori has unveiled a package of measures aimed at stimulating the domestic economy.... Read More
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- GUATEMALA: Morales a step closer to securing US migration deal
- VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA: Venezuelan Military deployed to Colombian border
- In brief: Colombia maintains moratorium on fracking
- BRAZIL: Son of Bolsonaro accused of advocating authoritarianism
- In brief: Brazil’s oil & gas regulator launches new bidding process
- In brief: Hurricane Dorian damage put at US$7bn
- MEXICO: Ebrard hails successful migration review
- In brief: Mexico’s annual inflation reaches 3.16% in August
- ARGENTINA: Social protests spread
- In brief: Uruguay gov’t unveils stimulus plan