LatinNews Daily - 20 March 2024

On 19 March Brazil’s federal police (PF) filed a report which recommended criminal charges against former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) in relation to an alleged scheme to falsify coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine certification.... Read More

On 19 March the Clan del Golfo, Colombia’s most powerful drug trafficking organisation (DTO), announced that it is willing to begin negotiating with the government, as was suggested by President Gustavo Petro the previous day.... Read More

*Leonidas Iza, the president of Ecuador’s powerful umbrella indigenous organisation Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (Conaie), has said that Conaie is hardening its anti-mining stance.... Read More

*Brazilian petrochemicals company Braskem has released its latest financial results, registering a net loss of R$1.58bn (US$314m) in the fourth quarter of 2023 and an annual net loss of R$4.58bn.... Read More

On 19 March the Haitian media reported that Accord du 21 décembre, a coalition of political parties, civic groups, and religious and private sector leaders, had named former senator Louis Gérald Gilles as its representative to the new presidential transition council.... Read More

*The US State Department and the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) have announced a new collaboration with Guatemalan stakeholders on the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) – a food security initiative that, according to a joint statement, will build “a more resilient food system through a focus on diverse, climate-adapted crops and healthy, fertile soils”.... Read More

On 19 March Mexico’s foreign ministry (SRE) said Mexico will not accept deportations made by the US state of Texas “under any circumstances”.... Read More

*Mexico’s economy ministry (SE) has announced that foreign companies made a total of 73 new investment announcements between 1 January and 15 March 2024, with expected investment of US$31.51bn.... Read More

On 19 March Argentina’s Defence Minister Luis Petri announced the deployment of the army, navy, and air force to help security forces fight drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) in the city of Rosario, Santa Fe province.... Read More

*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released new figures showing that the country registered a trade surplus of US$1.44bn in February, up from a surplus of US$182m in February 2023.... Read More