LatinNews Daily - 08 March 2024

On 7 March Peru’s congress voted to impeach two members of the country’s seven-member judicial oversight body (JNJ), which has become the frontline in a power struggle between congress and the judiciary.... Read More

*Colombia’s national statistics department (Dane) has released the latest consumer price index, which put monthly inflation in February at 1.09% – up from 0.92% in January.... Read More

On 7 March Brazil-based polling firm Atlas Intel released its latest approval ratings for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, showing 47% approval, down from the 52% registered in the pollster’s previous figures released in January.... Read More

*Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras has released its annual financial results, showing a net profit of R$124.61bn (US$25.25bn) for 2023.... Read More

On 7 March Cuba’s Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) government led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced an investigation into former economy minister Alejandro Gil (2018-2024), who was sacked last month.... Read More

*The United Nations green climate fund (GCF) has announced the termination of an agreement to reduce deforestation and strengthen resilience in the Bosawás and Río San Juan biosphere reserves in Nicaragua’s impoverished Caribbean region, citing non-compliance with GCF policies and procedures on environmental and social safeguards (ESS). The GCF suspended the agreement in July 2023, citing violence against indigenous people.... Read More

On 7 March Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the “black hand” of the opposition was behind recent protests in relation to the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher training college in Guerrero state.... Read More

*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released consumer price index figures for February, which put monthly inflation at 0.09% and the annual rate at 4.40%.... Read More

On 7 March the governors of Argentina’s six Patagonian provinces met in Puerto Madryn, a city in Chubut province, to present a united front ahead of talks today (8 March) with the national government to negotiate a fiscal pact.... Read More

*Argentina’s state oil firm YPF has announced that it will invest Ar$3bn (US$3.5m) this year in the Vaca Muerta shale fields in the southwest of the country, as part of a wider Ar$5bn investment plan for 2024.... Read More