LatinNews Daily - 28 March 2024

On 27 March Colombia’s foreign ministry announced that Argentine diplomatic staff will be expelled from the country following insults against President Gustavo Petro from Argentina’s President Javier Milei, who called Petro a “murderous terrorist”.... Read More

*Colombia’s national statistics department (Dane) has announced that the unemployment rate in February was 11.7% – up slightly on the 11.4% that was recorded in the same month last year.... Read More

On 27 March Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron attended the launch event in Rio de Janeiro state of a submarine developed under a Brazilian-French defence technology programme.... Read More

*Brazil’s labour ministry has released the latest figures from its national employment registry (Novo Caged), which that that a net 306,111 new jobs created in February.... Read More

On 27 March 11 pastors and ministry leaders of Puerta de la Montaña, the Nicaraguan branch of US evangelical ministry ‘Mountain Gateway’, were convicted in Nicaragua of money laundering.... Read More

*The Dominican Republic’s economy, planning & development (MEPYD) ministry has raised its GDP growth projection for 2024 to 5.0%, citing recovery observed in the second half of 2023 driven by monetary and fiscal policies.... Read More

China and Mexico are “good friends and good partners” a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on 27 March, commending earlier comments made by Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador who indicated that his country did not want a trade war with China.... Read More

*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show that in February, Mexico’s exports totalled US$50.72bn, up 13% year-on-year.... Read More

On 26 March Argentina’s presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said that the government would lay off 15,000 employees on short term contracts at the end of this month, not the 70,000 initially announced by President Javier Milei.... Read More

*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released its latest report on urban poverty and destitution, which shows that the poverty rate in the second half of 2023 was up 1.6 percentage points compared with the first half of 2023, with 41.7% of the surveyed population living in poverty in July-December last year (equivalent to 12.3m people).... Read More

This is the last LatinNews Daily before Easter. The next issue will be published on 2 April.... Read More