LatinNews Daily - 28 February 2024

On 27 February Salvatore Mancuso, the former second-in-command of the demobilised Colombian paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), was deported to Colombia after completing a 12-year sentence in the US and was immediately re-arrested.... Read More

*Peru’s President Dina Boluarte has issued a decree granting emergency funding to ease a liquidity crisis afflicting the state oil company, Petroperú.... Read More

On 27 February Brazil’s top electoral court (TSE) approved resolutions which set guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the production of electoral campaign material, among other rules for the municipal elections in October.... Read More

*Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has revoked parts of a decree he issued in late-December 2023 which re-imposed taxes on payrolls for 17 sectors.... Read More

On 27 February the Dominican Republic’s President Luis Abinader outlined key achievements of his Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM) government.... Read More

*Panama’s government led by President Laurentino Cortizo has issued a resolution ordering state institutions to begin the process of closing the contentious Cobre Panamá copper mine.... Read More

On 27 February the state security minister for Mexico’s northern state of Nuevo León Gerardo Palacios Pámanes revealed plans to install a base of mixed operations in Doctor Coss municipality, with support from the national guard (GN), and state police.... Read More

*Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex has released new figures which show the company made a net profit of M$106.9bn (US$6.25bn) in the fourth quarter of 2023, up from a net loss of M$95.6bn in the same period of the previous year and a net loss of M$79.1bn in the previous quarter.... Read More

On 27 February a court in Argentina ruled in favour of the south-eastern Patagonian province of Chubut in its dispute with President Javier Milei over his government’s withholding of federal taxes owed to the province.... Read More

*Unionised workers from Chile’s Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato, the steel division of iron ore and steel producer Compañía de Acero del Pacífico (CAP), located in BíoBío region, have delivered a letter to President Gabriel Boric asking for measures to safeguard against the impact of Chinese steel imports on the sector.... Read More