LatinNews Daily - 03 October 2019

On 2 October President Juan Orlando Hernández tweeted that “any claim the President received or agreed to receive money from El Chapo [Mexican drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán] or had anybody receive money for him, is 100% false, absurd, ridiculous, Alice in Wonderland crazy”.... Read More

Schools across Ecuador will be closed on 3 October to protect students as the government led by President Lenín Moreno prepares for widespread protests by transport unions and other groups over its decision to eliminate fuel subsidies.... Read More

* Ecuador’s central bank (BCE) revealed new figures which show the country’s GDP grew 0.3% in the second quarter of 2019 year-on year and grew 0.4% quarter-on-quarter.... Read More

On 2 October, the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), a public health research institute, published its findings of the effects on child health of wildfires in Brazil’s Amazonian region, and the financial cost this carries for the national public health service, the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS).... Read More

* Brazil’s oil and gas sector regulatory agency (ANP) released figures for oil and natural gas production for August.... Read More

* Panama’s ministry for the development of agriculture and livestock (Mida) announced the first shipment of Panamanian pineapples to Beijing.... Read More

On 2 October, around 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Mexico City (CDMX) to march in commemoration of the 51st anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, with some protestors causing violent disturbances and clashing with law enforcement officials.... Read More

* Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) released a report detailing expectations by economic experts from the private sector which reveal that projections for GDP growth for 2019 are forecast at 0.43%, down from 0.50% in the previous report released in August.... Read More

On 2 October an opinion poll commissioned by Uruguayan daily El País found a majority who watched the televised presidential debate between the two leading candidates the previous day believe Luis Lacalle Pou, of the centre-right opposition Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos), won it.... Read More

* The director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) development centre, Mario Pezzini, presented the third (and final) volume of the organisation’s ‘Multi-dimensional Review of Paraguay’.... Read More