LatinNews Daily - 10 April 2024

Despite Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s recent criticism of an “anti-democratic coup” in Venezuela, he held a pre-planned bilateral meeting with Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro in the Venezuelan capital Caracas on 9 April and both men issued a strong ‘business as usual’ signal.... Read More

*Venezuela’s Attorney General (AG) Tarek William Saab has announced the arrest of former oil minister, Tareck El Aissami (2020-2023) as part of a corruption probe into the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa).... Read More

On 9 April the regional electoral court of Paraná state (TRE-PR) absolved centre-right Senator Sergio Moro, who rose to fame as the lead judge of Brazil’s Lava Jato corruption investigation, of allegations of excessive campaign spending.... Read More

*Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras has announced that it has discovered a new offshore oil deposit in the Potiguar basin, near the equatorial margin.... Read More

On 9 April the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held a private meeting to discuss tensions between Guyana and Venezuela stemming from Venezuela’s claim to the disputed Essequibo region.... Read More

*Cuba has received 66,887 Russian tourists in the first quarter of 2024, more than double the 32,224 registered during the same period last year, according to Cristina León, a tourism official at the Cuban embassy in Russia.... Read More

On 9 April Mexico’s foreign minister, Alicia Bárcena, urged the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to support a case the country intends to present against Ecuador at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the letter it is preparing to send to the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres denouncing the incursion into Mexico’s embassy in Quito to seize former vice president Jorge Glas (2013-2017).... Read More

*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released its consumer price index for March, which shows that the monthly inflation rate stood at 0.29%, bringing the annual rate to 4.42%.... Read More

On 9 April tensions between Chile and Venezuela erupted again as ministers from both countries exchanged words over the Tren de Aragua, a Venezuela-born criminal organisation with a strong presence in Chile. ... Read More

*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released figures on construction and industrial manufacturing production in February, which showed significant yearly drops in both construction (-24.6%) and industrial production (-9.9%).... Read More