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LatinNews Daily - 15 October 2019
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- PARAGUAY: Abdo Benítez replaces key minister in bid to regain initiative
Andean
- PERU: Top court to debate dissolution of congress
- In brief: Ecuador’s losses due to unrest put at US$1.64bn
Brazil
- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro celebrates falling crime rates
- In brief: Brazil gov’t unfreezes budget after oil tender
Central America & Caribbean
- NICARAGUA: EU ups the pressure on Ortega
- In brief: IDB finances trauma hospital in Honduras
Mexico
- MEXICO: Police fatally ambushed by DTO in Michoacán
- In brief: Moody’s cuts growth forecast for Mexico
Southern Cone
- In brief: Argentina’s economy to get worse before better, warns WB
On 14 October, Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez swore-in Euclides Acevedo as his new interior minister.
LatinNews Daily - 14 October 2019
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- ECUADOR: Moreno bows to indigenous protests
Andean
- In brief: Siemens to invest €500m in Colombia
Brazil
- BRAZIL: UN targeted by gov’t minister in conservative event
- In brief: Stagnant GDP growth projections in Brazil
Central America & Caribbean
- HAITI: Protests continue to call for President Moïse to go
- In brief: Panama ratifies FTA with Israel
Mexico
- MEXICO: Authorities disband migrant caravan heading to US
- In brief: Mexico reports results of operations to reduce Pemex’s debt burden
Southern Cone
- ARGENTINA: Macri and Fernández clash in first debate
- In brief: Argentina’s BCRA president calls for political consensus
Washington Watch
- US expresses support for Ecuadorean gov’t
On 13 October it was announced that the Ecuadorean government had reached an agreement with the Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (Conaie) indigenous organisation to abolish the decree issued by President Lenín Moreno eliminating all petrol fuel subsidies, in exchange for Conaie ending its protests.
LatinNews Daily - 11 October 2019
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- BOLIVIA: Opposition calls for ‘civil disobedience’ ahead of election
Andean
- In brief: Trans-Ecuadorian oil pipeline system (Sote) paralysed
Brazil
- BRAZIL: Oil spill causes tensions with Venezuela
- In brief: Brazil celebrates record oil tender
Central America & Caribbean
- GUATEMALA: State of siege extended
- In brief: Panama Canal tonnage up 6.2% in FY2019
Mexico
- MEXICO: Gov’t denies pressuring for SCJN resignation
- In brief: World Bank reduces Mexico’s growth forecast
Southern Cone
- ARGENTINA: Opponents clash over corruption
- In brief: Chile’s Piñera announces new measures to address drought
On 10 October Waldo Albarracín, the rector of Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) and former human rights ombudsman (2003-2008), called for civil disobedience in the event of a victory by Bolivia's President Evo Morales in the 20 October general election.
LatinNews Daily - 10 October 2019
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- ECUADOR: Moreno scrambles for dialogue
Andean
- In brief: Colombia climbs up WEF Global Competitiveness Report
Brazil
- BRAZIL: Congress passes bill on distribution of oil royalties
- In brief: Brazil sees negative inflation in September
Central America & Caribbean
- GUATEMALA: Giammattei calls for CSJ justices to resign
- In brief: BCIE signs two loans with Nicaragua
Mexico
- MEXICO: Universities on strike over funding demands
- In brief: Mexico’s Inflation falls within Banxico target range
Southern Cone
- ARGENTINA: Supreme court leaves challenges for next gov’t
- In brief: Paraguay issues infrastructure bond
On 9 October Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno returned to the national capital, Quito, saying his government had established contact with representatives from the indigenous groups that have been leading protests against his government’s economic measures, to discuss the opening of a dialogue process.
LatinNews Daily - 09 October 2019
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- HAITI: Moïse names special committee to address crisis
Andean
- ECUADOR: Indigenous protests increase pressure on Moreno
- In brief: Strike in Bolivia over lithium royalties
Brazil
- BRAZIL: Another setback for Moro’s anti-crime package
- In brief: Brazil’s Petrobras concludes sale to Perenco
Central America & Caribbean
- In brief: Honduras’s inflation reaches 4.42% in September
Mexico
- MEXICO: New migrant caravan prepares to go north
- In brief: Mexico’s FDI in tourism totals US$507m in Q1 2019
Southern Cone
- PARAGUAY: Resignation in gov’t following corruption allegations
- In brief: Uruguay’s unemployment reaches 9.1% in August
On 8 October, Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse named a special committee to “lead discussions” on how to find a “concerted solution to the crisis”.
LatinNews Daily - 08 October 2019
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- ECUADOR: Moreno denounces coup attempt
Andean
- In brief: Peru’s exports down 8.1% in first eight months of 2019
Brazil
- BRAZIL: Oil spills in Northeast trouble gov’t
- In brief: Brazil vehicle production up, but exports down
Central America & Caribbean
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Fernández claims fraud in primaries
- In brief: El Salvador’s FDI totals US$435.9m in H1 2019
Mexico
- MEXICO: Taxi drivers enter dialogue with gov’t
- In brief: UN to accompany gov’t’s flagship 'Tren Maya'
Southern Cone
- ARGENTINA-URUGUAY: Presidential leaders stress close ties
- In brief: Chile’s exports down 6.1% in September
On 7 October Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno announced that he was temporarily transferring his government’s headquarters from the national capital, Quito, to the coastal city of Guayaquil following what he described as “an attempted coup” against his administration.
LatinNews Daily - 07 October 2019
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- HAITI: Opposition urges international community to drop support for Moïse
Andean
- ECUADOR: Moreno faces indigenous uprising
- In brief: Colombia’s inflation 3.82% in September
Brazil
- BRAZIL: Corruption accusations against ruling party re-emerge
- In brief: Spanish firm invests in Brazil solar park
Central America & Caribbean
- In brief: Russia’s PM attends first drilling of Cuban oil well
Mexico
- MEXICO: Mexican nationals shot in US
- In brief: Mexico’s exports of light vehicles down 7.11% in September
Southern Cone
- ARGENTINA: Macri rests hopes on higher voter participation
- In brief: Uruguay’s inflation reaches 7.78% in September
Washington Watch
- Honduras’s Hernández visits US
On 4 October a group of Haitian opposition figures delivered a letter to the Special Representative of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General in Haiti, addressed to UN Secretary General António Guterres, calling on the international community to drop its support for President Jovenel Moïse.
LatinNews Daily - 04 October 2019
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- ECUADOR: Under stage of siege following violent protests
Andean
- In brief: Peru mining investment up 26.3% in first eight months
Brazil
- BRAZIL: ‘Milícia’ links under scrutiny after Franco case arrests
- In brief: Brazil meets divestment target
Central America & Caribbean
- HAITI: DR urges international community ‘not to abandon Haiti’
- In brief: Nicaragua activates free trade deal with South Korea
Mexico
- MEXICO: Concerns over judicial autonomy after SCJN resignation
- In brief: Mexico issues new three-year bonds
Southern Cone
- ARGENTINA: Rival union movements to fuse behind Fernández
- In brief: Chile’s finance minister lowers growth forecast
On 3 October, President Lenín Moreno declared a state of siege across Ecuador’s national territory in response to the violent protests being staged in rejection of the economic policy measures recently announced by his government.
LatinNews Daily - 03 October 2019
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- HONDURAS: Hernández facing bribery allegations
Andean
- ECUADOR: Moreno battens down the hatches ahead of protests
- In brief: Ecuador’s GDP up 0.3% in second quarter
Brazil
- BRAZIL: Fiocruz presents health cost of Amazon fires
- In brief: Brazil’s oil production up 18.5% in August
Central America & Caribbean
- In brief: First shipment of Panamanian pineapples to China
Mexico
- MEXICO: Tlatelolco massacre commemorations turn violent
- In brief: Experts lower growth expectations in Mexico
Southern Cone
- URUGUAY: Debate boosts Lacalle Pou
- In brief: OECD recommends reform in Paraguay
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”.
LatinNews Daily - 02 October 2019
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- URUGUAY: First presidential debate called a draw
Andean
- PERU: Aráoz resigns as vice president in latest twist
- In brief: Ecuador to remove petrol fuel subsidies and leave Opec
Brazil
- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro expresses support for wildcat miners
- In brief: Pension reform slowly advances through Brazil’s senate
Central America & Caribbean
- HAITI: Protesters continue to call for Moïse to quit
- In brief: Costa Rica granted US$100m loan for crime prevention programme
Mexico
- MEXICO: AI urges gov’t to protect environmental activists
- In brief: Eclac backs López Obrador’s social programmes
Southern Cone
- In brief: Argentina’s supreme court rules against Macri’s tax cuts
On 1 October, the two leading candidates in Uruguay’s presidential race, Daniel Martínez of the leftist ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition and Luis Lacalle Pou of the centre-right opposition Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos), took part in a televised debate ahead of the 27 October general election.
LatinNews Daily - 01 October 2019
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- PERU: Vizcarra loses patience and dissolves congress
Andean
- In brief: Venezuela’s Maduro ready to resume negotiations over debt
Brazil
- BRAZIL: Trying to shed the ‘environmental villain’ image
- In brief: Brazil’s fiscal deficit down in August
Central America & Caribbean
- GUATEMALA: Giammattei questions top court
- In brief: El Salvador’s Bukele presents 2020 draft budget
Mexico
- MEXICO: UN refugees agency concludes second visit
- In brief: Mexico registers M$118.1bn deficit in first eight months
Southern Cone
- ARGENTINA: Poverty figures lay bare Macri’s failings
- In brief: Paraguay’s GDP contracted 3.0% in 2Q 2019
On 30 September, Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra issued a presidential decree formally dissolving the national congress and calling for the staging of legislative elections.