LatinNews Daily - 11 March 2024

On 8 March a US federal court convicted Honduras’ former president Juan Orlando Hernández (Partido Nacional, PN, 2014-2022), on three drug and weapons-related counts.... Read More

On 10 March the Colombian government and the Estado Mayor Central (EMC), an alliance of dissident units of the demobilised Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group, concluded their fourth round of peace talks with an agreement on “territorial transformations”.... Read More

*Venezuela’s central bank (BCV) has released its latest consumer price index, putting monthly inflation in February at 1.2% – down from 1.7% in January.... Read More

On 8 March the Brazilian press reported that supreme court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes had ordered that former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) and his allies be prohibited from attending official events held by the armed forces and military police.... Read More

*Brazil’s foreign ministry has announced that the government of Germany has proposed more funding for projects aimed at reducing carbon emissions and protecting Brazilian ecosystems.... Read More

*Nicaragua’s central bank (BCN) has released new figures showing that the country’s gross international reserves totalled US$5.61bn as of end February.... Read More

On 9 March Guerrero state attorney general’s office (FGE) announced it was investigating the state police over the killing of a student from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher training college in state capital Chilpancingo two days earlier.... Read More

*Mexico’s tourism ministry (Sectur) has announced that 10.20m passengers travelled by air in Mexico on domestic and international flights in January 2024, up from 9.98m in January 2023.... Read More

On 10 March Argentina’s President Javier Milei annulled a large salary increase that he and his cabinet ministers received in accordance with a decree he signed in February, blaming former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) for a decree she signed in 2010.... Read More

*Chile’s national statistics institute (INE) has released the consumer price index (IPC) for February, which shows monthly inflation of 0.6% and annual inflation of 4.5%.... Read More

Mexico/Guatemala: On 28 February senior Mexican, Guatemalan, and US officials convened at the US State Department for a trilateral ministerial meeting which aimed to strengthen collaboration on managing migration and displacement, whilst further promoting regional progress and development.... Read More