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LatinNews Daily - 03 December 2019

Main Briefing
On 2 December Chile’s finance minister Ignacio Briones presented a US$5.5bn plan to try and reactivate the economy, which suffered its heaviest contraction for over two decades in October, according to the latest monthly economic activity index (Imacec) published shortly beforehand.... Read More
Andean
On 2 December, President Iván Duque’s government agreed to enter direct negotiations with the Comité Nacional de Paro, the leaders of the protests that have swept Colombia since 21 November.... Read More
* The Autoridad para la Reconstrucción con Cambios (ARCC), Peru’s emergency authority tasked with rebuilding infrastructure destroyed by the climatic consequences of the localised El Niño Costero phenomenon in 2017, has said that it will have spent over PEN9bn (US$2.65bn) by the end of 2019.... Read More
Brazil
On 2 December, the government led by President Jair Bolsonaro stated that it is working to defend Brazilian trade interests while deepening bilateral relations after US President Donald Trump announced that he would re-impose tariffs on Brazilian and Argentine steel and aluminium exports.... Read More
* The foreign trade secretariat in Brazil’s economy ministry has presented its latest trade balance figures, according to which the country registered a trade surplus of US$3.428bn in November.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 2 December a Honduran court handed down prison sentences of between 30 and 50 years for seven men convicted of the 2016 murder of Berta Cáceres, the leader of local indigenous organisation Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (Copinh).... Read More
* Cuba has taken its latest steps to unite its dual-currency system.... Read More
Mexico
On 2 December Adrián LeBarón, a member of the Mexican-US Mormon family whose relatives were the victims of a recent deadly attack by a suspected drug trafficking organisation (DTO), said he was satisfied following a meeting with Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More
* Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) has released the November 2019 issue of its expectations survey of private sector economic experts, according to which GDP growth projections have been revised downwards.... Read More
Southern Cone
* Paraguay’s foreign minister, Antonio Rivas Palacio, has said that he expects Paraguay to close an automotive agreement with Brazil before it takes over the pro-tempore presidency of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) trade bloc this week, at the heads of state summit to be held in Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil on 5 December.... Read More

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