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LatinNews Daily - 18 March 2024
Main Briefing
On 15 March Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro suggested that a constituent assembly could be convened with the power to modify the constitution.... Read More
Andean
*Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has signed a decree ordering a rise in the value-added tax (VAT) rate to 15% from 1 April, up from the current rate of 13%.... Read More
Brazil
On 15 March Brazil’s supreme court (STF) disclosed the testimony previously given in relation to a federal police (PF) probe into the alleged military coup conspiracy to overturn the 2022 election defeat of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023).... Read More
*Brazil’s labour ministry has released the latest figures from its national employment registry (Novo Caged), showing a net 180,395 jobs created in January.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 17 March Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed that “various people have expressed their dissatisfaction with the situation of electrical service and distribution of food”.... Read More
*Samantha Power, the administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced that the US through USAID intends to provide an additional US$25m in humanitarian assistance for Haiti.... Read More
Mexico
On 16 March students from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher training college in Mexico’s Guerrero state protested in state capital Chilpancingo to demand justice for the killing of their classmate, Yanqui Rothan Gómez Peralta, on 7 March.... Read More
*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released its preliminary indicator of private consumption (IOCP) which estimates that consumption increased by 4.3% in January and by 4.7% in February in yearly terms. In monthly terms, Inegi estimates that private consumption grew by 0.4% in January and 0.1% in February.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 15 March the director of Chile’s investigative police force (PDI), Sergio Muñoz, tendered his resignation after being investigated for corruption and revealing secret information.... Read More
*Argentina’s economy ministry has registered a budget surplus of Ar$338.11bn (US$397m) in February, following January’s surplus of Ar$518.41bn.... Read More
Washington Watch
Venezuela: On 6 March Venezuela’s government led by President Nicolás Maduro rejected the US government’s renewal of US executive order 13692, which was first issued in 2015 and declared a national emergency in Venezuela.... Read More
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- COLOMBIA: Furore over Petro’s call for constituent assembly
- In brief: VAT increase in Ecuador
- BRAZIL: Ex-commanders implicate Bolsonaro in alleged coup plot
- In brief: Brazil’s net job creation up in January
- CUBA: Rare protests as economic and energy situation worsens
- In brief: US announces more funding for Haiti
- MEXICO: Ayotzinapa protests continue in Guerrero
- In brief: Private consumption up in Mexico
- CHILE: Police chief resigns amid scandal
- In brief: Argentina records second consecutive monthly budget surplus
- Venezuela slams extension of US emergency declaration