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LatinNews Daily - 07 March 2024
Main Briefing
On 6 March the United Nations (UN) Security Council (UNSC) held a private meeting on Haiti.... Read More
Andean
On 6 March tens of thousands of people participated in anti-government protests around Colombia.... Read More
*Peru’s President Dina Boluarte has sworn in Gustavo Adrianzén as her new prime minister following the resignation of Alberto Otárola, who was placed under investigation by the attorney general’s office following allegations that he improperly offered a job to a woman with whom he had a romantic relationship.... Read More
Brazil
On 6 March Brazil’s supreme court (STF) continued hearing a case regarding the decriminalisation of possessing cannabis for personal consumption, with two conservative STF justices casting their votes yesterday against decriminalisation.... Read More
*Brazil’s ministry of industry & trade has released its latest trade figures, showing a trade surplus of US$5.45bn in February, a record surplus for the month of February.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
*Honduras’s government led by President Xiomara Castro has denounced the World Bank (WB)’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) as “a system that undermines the sovereignty of nations”, according to a statement from the procurator general’s office (PGR).... Read More
Mexico
On 6 March a group protesting the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college in Mexico’s Guerrero state knocked down a door to the presidential palace in Mexico City (CDMX), demanding to meet with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More
*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has announced that 113,258 light vehicles were sold in the domestic market in February, representing an 11.1% increase in yearly terms.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 6 March Argentina’s federal security minister, Patricia Bullrich, shared a photo of a prison in Rosario, in the north-eastern province of Santa Fe, which appeared to show tactics inspired by El Salvador’s controversial incarceration model under President Nayib Bukele.... Read More
*Chile’s senate has begun reviewing the pension reform proposal tabled by the leftist government led by President Gabriel Boric which passed the lower house in late January.... Read More
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- HAITI: Pressure grows on Henry to step down
- COLOMBIA: Thousands march against Petro
- In brief: New prime minister appointed in Peru
- BRAZIL: Conservative justices vote against cannabis decriminalisation
- In brief: Brazil’s monthly trade surplus up year-on-year
- In brief: Honduras denounces World Bank arbitration body
- MEXICO: Ayotzinapa protests escalate
- In brief: Vehicle sales, exports, and production rise in Mexico
- ARGENTINA: Gov’t cracks down on prisoners
- In brief: Pension reform enters Chile’s senate