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LatinNews Daily - 26 March 2024
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On 25 March Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo met US President Joe Biden at the White House.... Read More
Andean
On 25 March Venezuela’s opposition coalition Plataforma Unitaria Democrática (PUD) said that it had been blocked from registering its presidential candidate, Corina Yoris, ahead of yesterday’s deadline.... Read More
*Peru’s main extractive lobby, the Sociedad Nacional de Minería, Petróleo y Energía (SNMPE) has announced that mining exports in January totalled US$3.10bn, representing an increase of 15% on January 2023.... Read More
Brazil
On 25 March sources from Brazil’s federal police (PF) confirmed to the media that the PF would investigate reports that former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023), who faces multiple criminal investigations, stayed at the Hungarian embassy last month.... Read More
*Brazil’s minister for ports and airports, Silvio Costa Filho, has announced that Spanish airport operator Aena will invest R$2bn (US$402m) in expansion works for Congonhas airport in São Paulo, the country’s second busiest airport.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
*Panama’s economy & finance ministry (MEF) has announced that the World Bank (WB) has approved a new US$350m project to continue reducing emissions and adapting to climate change.... Read More
Mexico
On 25 March a US judge in Tucson, Arizona ruled that the Mexican government can move forward with its legal case against five local gun dealers, who it accuses of facilitating the trafficking of weapons and ammunition to drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) across the Mexico-US border.... Read More
*The head of Mexico’s central bank (Banxico), Victoria Rodríguez Ceja, has said that Banxico’s recent decision to cut interest rates does not mean that the “battle against inflation has ended”.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 25 March China’s foreign ministry directly contradicted Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña over comments he made about exporting soybeans to the country and urged his government to “quit making things up to justify its wrongful ties with Taiwan”.... Read More
*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has published new figures which show that the country’s external debt totalled US$285.95bn in the fourth quarter of 2023, up US$1.62bn on the previous quarter.... Read More
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- GUATEMALA: Arévalo meets Biden
- VENEZUELA: PUD unable to register candidate as deadline passes
- In brief: Peru’s mining exports rise in annual terms
- BRAZIL: Police to probe Bolsonaro’s stay at Hungarian embassy
- In brief: Spanish firm to expand major airport in Brazil
- In brief: Panama hails WB environmental loan
- MEXICO: US court issues gun-trafficking ruling
- In brief: Mexico’s Banxico head signals caution over interest rate cut
- PARAGUAY: China rebukes Peña over soya claims
- In brief: Argentina’s external debt rises