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LatinNews Daily - 23 January 2024
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On 22 January the suspected leader of a dissident unit of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group, Carlos Arturo Landázuri (‘Comandante Gringo’), was handed over to the Colombian authorities after being arrested in Ecuador.... Read More
Andean
*Peru’s investment promotion agency (Proinversión) has announced details of public-private investment projects worth some US$4.2bn which are being sought by the transport and communications ministry.... Read More
Brazil
On 22 January Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva partially promulgated the federal government’s 2024 budget legislation (LOA) but vetoed some ‘emendas parlamentares’, earmarked grants to fund public works in legislators’ constituencies.... Read More
*Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced a programme which aims to revitalise the country’s stagnant industrial sector.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 22 January the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince along with Haiti’s Conférence Haïtienne des Religieux (CHR), an association of congregations, released a letter calling for the release of six nuns kidnapped on 19 January and urged measures to address gang violence.... Read More
*Honduras’ leading private sector lobby Consejo Hondureño de la Empresa Privada (Cohep) has underlined that new European Union rules will take effect from January 2025 regarding zero deforestation for Honduras’ export sectors of: coffee, palm oil, cacao, beef, leather, wood and soya.... Read More
Mexico
On 22 January Mexico’s government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticised the federal judicial power (PJF) over a recent ruling concerning the Ayotzinapa enforced disappearance case.... Read More
*Economic analysts surveyed by Citibanamex, the Mexican banking unit of US financial giant Citigroup Inc, have forecast that Mexico’s GDP grew by 3.4% in 2023, in keeping with its previous (19 December) survey.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 22 January the finance commission of Chile’s lower chamber of congress approved the government’s pension reform.... Read More
*Chile’s undersecretary of international economic relations, Claudia Sanhueza, has announced the successful conclusion of negotiations for a modernised free trade agreement (FTA) between Chile and the European Free Trade Association (Efta), comprising Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.... Read More
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- COLOMBIA: Dissident Farc leader captured in Ecuador
- In brief: Peru unveils new public-private investment projects
- BRAZIL: Lula vetoes part of budget legislation
- In brief: Brazil launches reindustrialisation funding plan
- HAITI: Pressure grows on gov’t over nuns’ kidnapping
- In brief: Honduras’ Cohep highlights new EU deforestation export rules
- MEXICO: Gov’t slams judiciary over Ayotzinapa ruling
- In brief: Experts maintain Mexico’s growth forecast
- CHILE: Pension reform clears key hurdle
- In brief: Chile modernises Efta trade agreement