LatinNews Daily - 06 March 2024

On 5 March Venezuela’s national electoral council (CNE) announced that the presidential election will take place on 28 July.... Read More

*Peru’s prime minister, Alberto Otárola, has resigned after coming under mounting pressure over leaked audio recordings in which he appeared to improperly offer a job to a woman with whom he had a romantic relationship.... Read More

On 5 March the government of Brazil’s most populous state, São Paulo, decreed a health emergency due to the rising number of dengue cases.... Read More

*Japanese car manufacturer Toyota has announced that it will invest R$11bn (US$2.2bn) in its operations in Brazil before 2030, R$5bn of which will be invested by the end of 2026.... Read More

On 5 March the international media reported that Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry was in Puerto Rico, as Haitian gang leader Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier reiterated calls for him to quit.... Read More

*Honduran anti-corruption NGO Consejo Nacional Anticorrupción (CNA) has released a report warning that most of the 32 public hospitals in the country are not of an acceptable standard.... Read More

On 5 March Mexico’s federal security minister, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, revealed that the government had received 23 requests for protection from candidates competing in the 2 June elections.... Read More

*Mexico’s national social security institute (IMSS) has released a new report showing it had registered 22.29m jobs as of 29 February 2024.... Read More

On 5 March Paraguay’s ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) declared that presidential re-election and a request for the expulsion from the party of Paraguay’s former president Mario Abdo Benítez (2018-2023) would not feature on the agenda of an upcoming party convention.... Read More

*Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released its consumer price index (IPC) figures for February, showing that monthly inflation was 0.64%, bringing annual inflation to 4.71%.... Read More