LatinNews Daily - 29 April 2024

On 28 April Mexico’s three presidential candidates, frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), Xóchitl Gálvez from the main opposition coalition Fuerza y Corazón por México, and Jorge Álvarez Máynez of the leftist Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), took part in a second debate.... Read More

On 26 April Peru’s judicial oversight body (JNJ) asked the country’s inspector general, Javier Pacheco, to open an investigation into the president of the constitutional court (TC), Francisco Morales.... Read More

*International credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has lowered its long-term foreign currency rating for Peru from ‘BBB’ to ‘BBB-’, and its local currency rating from ‘BBB+’ to ‘BBB’.... Read More

On 28 April Brazil’s Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and other cabinet ministers attended the agribusiness trade fair Agrishow, where Alckmin highlighted the importance of maintaining dialogue with opponents in congress amid recent tensions.... Read More

*Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Health Minister Nísia Trindade, and other government officials have inaugurated an insulin production plant in Nova Lima municipality, within the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais state.... Read More

On 26 April the media reported that international NGO Save The Children declared itself “shocked and perplexed” by a day-earlier raid conducted by Guatemala’s attorney general’s office (AG).... Read More

*Nicaragua’s central bank (BCN) has released new figures which show remittances to the country in the first quarter of 2024 totalled US$1.14bn, up 11.8% on the same period in 2023.... Read More

*Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex has released new figures which show the company made a net profit of M$4.7bn (US$273.4m) in the first quarter of 2024, down from a profit of M$57bn in the same period of 2023 and a profit of M$106.9bn in the previous quarter.... Read More

On 27 April three members of Chile’s Carabineros militarised police were shot dead and their bodies burned in the southern region of Biobío.... Read More

*Workers at Chile’s state-owned oil company Empresa Nacional de Petróleo (Enap) have announced protests in response to the dismissal of over 30 workers as a result of a business restructuring.... Read More

Venezuela: On 25 April Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro took to social media to criticise the “imperial hegemonic crisis of the US and the West”.... Read More