LatinNews Daily - 05 April 2024

On 4 April Ecuador’s foreign ministry announced that the Mexican ambassador in Quito, Raquel Serur Smeke, had been declared “persona non grata” in response to comments by Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More

*Bolivia’s national statistics institute (INE) has released new figures showing that the country’s trade deficit fell to US$170.9m in January, down from US$213.6m the previous month.... Read More

On 4 April Brazil’s justice & public security minister Ricardo Lewandowski announced that police had recaptured the convicts who broke out of the Mossoró federal penitentiary in February, the first ever successful escape from a federal prison.... Read More

*Brazil’s ministry of industry & trade has released figures showing a monthly trade surplus of US$7.48bn in March and a quarterly surplus of US$19.08bn for the first quarter of 2024.... Read More

On 4 April six human rights lobby groups issued a joint statement calling for El Salvador’s state of emergency, which has been in force for the last two years, to be ended due to frequent reports of human rights violations and the alleged deaths of around 240 people in the country’s prisons.... Read More

*Costa Rica’s national statistics institute (Inec) has released new figures which show that the national unemployment rate was 7.8% in the December 2023 to February 2024 rolling quarter, a drop of 3.2 percentage points on the same quarter the previous year.... Read More

On 4 April both the frontrunners in Mexico’s presidential race, Claudia Sheinbaum, for the federally ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) and Xóchitl Gálvez for the main opposition coalition Fuerza y Corazón por México, outlined aspects of their proposed security policies.  ... Read More

*Mexico’s economy and labour ministries have announced the conclusion of an internal investigation regarding the alleged denial of the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining at the RV Fresh Foods S.A.... Read More

On 4 April Argentina’s President Javier Milei met the commander of the US Southern Command (Southcom), General Laura Richardson, in Ushuaia, the capital of the southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego.... Read More

*Chile’s President Gabriel Boric has hailed the start of excavation works on a project to extend Line 6 of the Santiago metro by 3km.... Read More