LatinNews Daily - 29 January 2024

On 27 January the US State Department announced that it is reviewing its sanctions policy on Venezuela after the country’s supreme court (TSJ) rejected an appeal by opposition presidential aspirant María Corina Machado against a ban on her candidacy.... Read More

*Bolivia’s state-owned lithium company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) has announced a new international tender for lithium projects on seven salt flats in the southwestern departments of Potosí and Oruro.... Read More

On 26 January Hutukara Associação Yanomami (HAY), an NGO representing the Yanomami indigenous people in northern Brazil, reported an annual expansion in the area affected by the activity of illegal miners (‘garimpeiros’) on Yanomami territory in 2023.... Read More

*Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras has released its annual production figures for oil and natural gas, registering 2.78m barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in 2023.... Read More

On 26 January Kenya’s high court ruled against the deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police officials to lead a multinational security support (MSS) mission to Haiti.... Read More

*A new project entitled ‘Aporto’ on civic space and climate justice in Central America’s Northern Triangle (comprising El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) has been launched by Honduran non-profit Red de Desarrollo Sostenible Honduras (RDS-HN), the Guatemalan campus of the think tank Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Flacso), and Salvadorean civil society group Fundación Comunicándonos-El Salvador, with the technical and financial support of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a government agency.... Read More

On 26 January the Mexican branch of international NGO Save the Children denounced the arming of school children in Ayahualtempa, an indigenous village in José Joaquín de Herrera municipality, Guerrero state.... Read More

*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show that in 2023 the country registered a trade deficit of US$5.46bn, down 79.7% from a deficit of US$26.88bn in 2022.... Read More

On 27 January the Argentine government announced that the economy minister, Luis Caputo, would pick up the infrastructure portfolio, converting his current position into a super ministry.... Read More

*The Latin American Development Bank (CAF) has granted a credit line for US$50m to Paraguay’s financial development agency (AFD).... Read More

Ecuador: From 22-25 January the US Special Adviser for the Americas Chris Dodd and Commander of the US Southern Command, General Laura Richardson led a US delegation to Ecuador.... Read More