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LatinNews Daily - 10 December 2019

Main Briefing
On 9 December, Ecuador’s national assembly (AN) voted to approve the ‘tax simplicity and progressivity law’, President Lenín Moreno’s latest attempt to pass the programme of economic reform needed to meet his government’s financial support agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).... Read More
Andean
* Peru’s central bank (BCRP) has released new figures which show Peru's trade balance recorded a surplus of US$4.13bn in January-October.... Read More
Brazil
On 9 December, the governor of Brazil's São Paulo state, João Doria, held a second meeting with the families of the fatal victims of a police operation in São Paulo city’s Paraisópolis favela on 1 December. ... Read More
* Brazil’s agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina da Costa Dias, has highlighted that the price of beef has fallen on average 9% across the country in the first week of December, following a sharp increase in the price of meat, especially beef, over the past few weeks.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 9 December, Ronalth Ochaeta, the interim spokesperson for the International Commission against Impunity in El Salvador (Cicies) and Raúl Melara, the head of El Salvador’s attorney general’s office (AG), signed an agreement regarding a “strategic alliance” to combat corruption.... Read More
* The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that it is scaling up operations in Haiti to provide emergency food assistance to 700,000 people.... Read More
Mexico
On 9 December, Mexico’s foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, revealed that negotiating teams from Mexico, the US, and Canada will meet in Mexico City today (10 December) to finalise the ratification of a trilateral trade deal to supersede the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released the latest figures for the consumer price index (INPC), which show that monthly inflation totalled 0.81% in November.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 9 December, Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera announced that his government will present a series of legal reforms designed to crack down on corruption and economic crimes such as collusion, tax evasion, and insider trading.... Read More
* Argentina’s outgoing finance minister, Hernán Lacunza, has reported that in the first 11 months of the year Argentina accumulated a primary fiscal surplus (excluding payments of interest on debt) of US$417.5m or 0.1% of GDP.... Read More

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