LatinNews Daily - 03 April 2024

On 2 April Argentina’s President Javier Milei took part in a ceremony marking the 42nd anniversary of the Falklands (Malvinas) War and hailed a “new era of reconciliation” with the armed forces.... Read More

On 2 April Colombia’s healthcare regulator (Supersalud) announced that it will intervene in one of the country’s largest private health insurers (EPS), Sanitas.... Read More

*Peru’s investment promotion agency (Proinversión) has announced that in the first three months of 2024 it approved 11 infrastructure investment projects totalling PEN166m (US$44.68m) via its ‘Works for Taxes’ initiative, which offers tax breaks to private firms that carry out public infrastructure works.... Read More

On 2 April Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva travelled to Rio de Janeiro to launch government projects and hold meetings with the city’s mayor, Eduardo Paes, affiliated with the centrist Partido Social Democrático (PSD).... Read More

*Brazil’s federal oil and gas regulator (ANP) has released its production figures for February, registering a total monthly production volume of 4.38m barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) of oil and gas.... Read More

On 2 April Brian Nichols, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, said that Cuba is experiencing a “key moment” as the population lacks “electricity, food and work, and the solution is democracy".... Read More

*Fernando Fondevila, the CEO and general director of the Panama tourism promotion fund (Promtur), a grouping of tourism businesses, has said that the country is expecting some 2.9m visitors in 2024 (which includes tourists as well as those who stay at least a night or several hours in the country).... Read More

On 2 April the government of Mexico’s central state of Guanajuato offered to provide security protection for all candidates competing in the upcoming elections after Bertha Gisela Gaytán Gutiérrez, who was running for mayor of Celaya for the nationally ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), was shot dead on her first day of campaigning.... Read More

*Economic analysts surveyed by Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) have revised their 2024 GDP growth forecast for Mexico in their latest monthly survey, slightly lowering their annual growth projection to 2.36%, down from 2.39% in the previous monthly survey.... Read More

*The governing board of Chile’s central bank (BCCh) has unanimously opted to reduce interest rates by 75 basis points to 6.50%.... Read More