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LatinNews Daily - 19 April 2024
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On 18 April Argentina’s Defence Minister Luis Petri filed a formal request in Brussels to become a partner country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato).... Read More
Andean
On 18 April campaigning for Ecuador’s 11-question referendum, due to be held on 21 April, came to an end, amid uncertainty over whether a spate of power cuts and incidents of political violence might reduce support for the ‘yes’ vote recommended by President Daniel Noboa. ... Read More
*Colombia’s ministers for mining & energy, Andrés Camacho, and the environment, Susana Muhamad, have announced 15 measures to address energy shortages stemming from the drought caused by the impact of the El Niño weather phenomenon, which is also affecting neighbouring Ecuador.... Read More
Brazil
On 18 April Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva decreed the demarcation of two new protected indigenous territories (TIs).... Read More
*The Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab), the logistics arm of Brazil’s agriculture ministry, has released its latest forecast for the 2023/24 sugar cane harvest cycle, projecting a harvest of 713.2m tonnes (t).... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 18 April human rights groups slammed the decision by the US administration led by President Joe Biden to resume deportation flights back to Haiti.... Read More
*The president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, and his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, have announced the signing of a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA).... Read More
Mexico
On 18 April Mexico’s national statistics agency (Inegi) published an opinion survey which showed 61% of Mexicans over the age of 18 believe that the city they live in is “unsafe”.... Read More
*Mexico’s government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has published an order in its official gazette decreeing the expropriation of a hydrogen plant owned by French firm Air Liquide at the Miguel Hidalgo refinery, owned by state-owned oil company Pemex, in Tula de Allende municipality, Hidalgo state.... Read More
Southern Cone
*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released new figures showing that the country registered a trade surplus of US$2.06bn in March, up from a deficit of US$1.11bn in the same month last year.... Read More
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- ARGENTINA: Milei embraces West with Nato push
- ECUADOR: Power cuts may erode gov’t support in referendum
- In brief: Colombia announces energy saving measures
- BRAZIL: Lula demarcates two indigenous territories
- In brief: Brazil forecasts record sugar cane harvest
- HAITI: US resumption of deportations to Haiti draws criticism
- In brief: Costa Rica, Colombia sign deals with UAE
- MEXICO: Voters feeling unsafe
- In brief: Mexico formally expropriates France’s Air Liquide hydrogen plant
- In brief: Argentina’s trade surplus rises