LatinNews Daily - 29 February 2024

On 28 February leaders from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) said Haiti’s caretaker prime minister, Ariel Henry, had agreed to hold elections in Haiti by 31 August 2025.... Read More

On 28 February legislators from Peru’s left-wing Perú Libre (PL) submitted a bill which seeks to declare an emergency in the attorney general’s office and replace the country’s top prosecutors, in the latest escalation of tensions between congress and the judiciary.... Read More

*The president of Bolivia’s state-owned hydrocarbons company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Armin Dorgathen, has said that the country’s oil revenue in 2023 was approximately US$2bn.... Read More

On 28 February Brazil’s federal police (PF) arrested a suspect who was allegedly an accomplice in the high-profile 2018 assassination of Rio de Janeiro city councillor Marielle Franco. ... Read More

*Brazil’s finance minister, Fernando Haddad, has called for global cooperation on raising more taxes from the “super-rich”, in a speech addressing the G20 finance ministers’ meeting in São Paulo.... Read More

*Cuba’s government has confirmed that as of 1 March, new energy tariffs for top-tier consumers and changes to fuel prices will take effect.... Read More

On 28 February Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola a “mobster”, further fuelling concerns over his attitude towards the press.... Read More

*Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) has released its quarterly report for the final quarter of 2023, in which it reduced its 2024 GDP growth forecast to 2.8%, down from a previous (November) forecast of 3%.... Read More

On 28 February aviation workers in Argentina went on strike, prompting mass flight cancellations.... Read More

*Chile’s national statistics institute (INE) has released the latest employment figures which show that unemployment reached 8.4% in the November-January rolling quarter.... Read More