LatinNews Daily - 25 January 2024

On 24 January thousands took to the streets across Argentina for a general strike organised by the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), the country’s most powerful trade union organisation in protest against President Javier Milei’s economic reforms.... Read More

On 24 January Colombia’s inspector general’s office suspended Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva over alleged irregularities in a bidding process for a contract to produce passports.... Read More

*Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has said that his government is considering seeking international assistance as it struggles with forest fires.... Read More

On 24 January Brazil’s regional development ministry announced that it has added more municipalities to its list of areas affected by climate disasters, advancing the process for these municipalities to receive more federal government support.... Read More

*Brazil’s government has announced that US car manufacturer General Motors (GM) has launched a new investment plan to develop its operations in Brazil.... Read More

On 24 January Guatemala’s attorney general (AG) María Consuelo Porras said in a video posted on social media that she fully intended to “fulfil the constitutional mandate of four years” and would not step down.... Read More

*El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill has held a meeting with Guatemala’s ambassador to El Salvador, Rubén Nájera, to address more general bilateral issues, in which she expressed concern regarding the Cerro Blanco gold mining project in Guatemala’s southern Jutiapa department, which is close to the border with El Salvador.... Read More

On 24 January municipal authorities in Celaya, a city in Mexico’s Guanajuato state, announced that four police officers had been killed in an armed attack.... Read More

*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released consumer price index figures for the first half of January which show inflation was 0.49% compared to the previous two-week period.... Read More

*The foreign ministers of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia, have highlighted the need to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) as soon as possible.... Read More