LatinNews Daily - 11 April 2024

On 10 April members of the Argentine government met with leading union representatives to lay out plans for a labour reform, shortly after a revised draft version of President Javier Milei’s omnibus reform bill was sent to congress.  ... Read More

On 10 April two motions of censure against Peru’s mining and energy minister, Rómulo Mucho, were defeated in congress by 68 to 25 votes, with 16 abstentions.... Read More

*Colombia’s former president Álvaro Uribe (2022-2010) has slammed the recent announcement by the attorney general’s office that he will go on trial to face charges of bribing witnesses and undermining the course of justice.... Read More

On 10 April Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced that the government’s social housing programme, ‘Minha Casa, Minha Vida’ (MCMV), will be expanded to build more housing in rural areas and for indigenous communities.... Read More

*Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the latest figures for its consumer price index (Ipca), putting monthly inflation at 0.16% in March.... Read More

On 10 April Denis Muñoz, the lawyer of five Salvadorean environmentalists detained in 2023, said a court had decided that they would face trial on the charges of illicit association and homicide in relation to the murder of a woman during the civil war (1980-1992).... Read More

*Nicaragua’s 92-member unicameral legislature has unanimously approved a 194.471m yuan (US$26.87m) loan from Chinese firm China CAMC Engineering which will be used to strengthen Nicaragua’s “energy capacities”, according to statement by the legislature.... Read More

For the second day running on 10 April local residents from the Benito Juárez neighbourhood blocked part of Avenida Insurgentes, the main north-south thoroughfare in Mexico City (CDMX), in a protest over unexplained water contamination.... Read More

*Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has welcomed a recent Organization of American States (OAS) resolution condemning the incursion by Ecuadorean security forces into the Mexican embassy in Quito on 5 April.... Read More

*UK-based bank and financial services group HSBC Holdings has announced plans to sell its business in Argentina to local private financial group Grupo Financiero Galicia for US$550m, along with a US$1bn pre-tax loss on the sale.... Read More