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LatinNews Daily - 13 February 2024
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Argentina’s President Javier Milei met Pope Francis in the Vatican on 11 and 12 February, as part of a foreign trip in which he also sought closer ties with Israel and Italy.... Read More
Andean
On 12 February the president of the Venezuelan human rights NGO Control Ciudadano, Rocío San Miguel, was charged with crimes including terrorism.... Read More
*The governments of Colombia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in which they agreed to cooperate on the development of artificial intelligence (AI).... Read More
Brazil
On 12 February Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) called for demonstrations by his supporters as the pressure mounts over his alleged involvement in the plotting of a coup d’état.... Read More
*The Canada-based company Sigma Lithium has announced that it will invest R$492.4m (US$99.4m) in the construction of a second industrial lithium concentrate production plant in Brazil’s south-eastern Minas Gerais state.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 12 February the president of El Salvador’s opposition right-wing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) Carlos García Saade, said the party had withdrawn from the final scrutiny process regarding the 4 February legislative elections (held concurrently with presidential elections), citing a “lack of transparency guarantees”.... Read More
*Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, has announced that the UN is reallocating existing resources to support the authorities with the immediate clean-up efforts following a massive oil spill in Trinidad & Tobago, from an unidentified vessel that overturned off the coast of Tobago on 7 February.... Read More
Mexico
On 12 February Mexico’s navy ministry (Semar) announced it had dismantled a methamphetamine ‘mega laboratory’ in Sonora state.... Read More
*Bonds of Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex have fallen following a downgrade from international credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service on 9 February.... Read More
Southern Cone
*Paraguay’s central bank (BCP) has released new figures which show that the country registered a trade deficit of US$71.6m in January 2024 – the first deficit since June 2023.... Read More
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- ARGENTINA: Milei tries to use Papal meeting to revive plans for reform
- VENEZUELA: Leading rights activist charged as crackdown continues
- In brief: Colombia and UAE to cooperate on artificial intelligence
- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro seeks to rally supporters
- In brief: New lithium plant to be constructed in Brazil’s Minas Gerais
- EL SALVADOR: Concerns proliferate over credibility of electoral process
- In brief: UN announces assistance for Tobago oil spill
- MEXICO: Armed forces hail major drug lab raid
- In brief: Mexico’s Pemex bonds fall after Moody’s downgrade
- In brief: Paraguay registers trade deficit in January