LatinNews Daily Report - 25 June 2013

Development: On 24 June Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff met the country’s 27 state governors and 26 mayors and proposed five pacts in response to the country's biggest public protests in 20 years.... Read More

Development: On 24 June a Colombian court convicted current and former leaders of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) to 40-year prison sentences by way of responsibility for a 2003 bomb attack that killed four people.... Read More

Development: On 24 June Costa Rica’s Environment & Energy Minister René Castro said he would not resign over the recent decision by the comptroller general’s office to halt the project to modernise Costa Rica’s only oil refinery, at the Caribbean port of Moín, over contractual violations.... Read More

ECONOMY | End in sight to Haiti-DR poultry trade spat.... Read More

Development: On 24 June Jesús Zambrano, the president of the opposition Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) denied that there were “substantial divisions” in the PRD over plans by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) government of President Enrique Peña Nieto to reform the country’s energy sector.... Read More

Development: On 24 June Sergio Massa, the mayor of Tigre in Buenos Aires province, held a meeting with a diverse group of politicians and celebrities that back his newly formed Frente Renovado (FR) faction of the ruling Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists).... Read More

Development: On 24 June Paraguay’s president-elect, Horacio Cartes, said he had called on the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) to suspend the scheduled transfer of the bloc’s pro-tempore presidency to Venezuela and bestow it on Paraguay instead as a precondition for negotiating Paraguay’s return to the regional organisation.... Read More