LatinNews Daily - 15 April 2024

On 12 April a decree formally establishing the new nine-member transitional presidential council (TPC) was published in Haiti’s official gazette, Le Moniteur.... Read More

On 12 April it was confirmed that senior US and Venezuelan officials held a secret meeting in Mexico last week, with the US saying the purpose was to express concern over Venezuela’s electoral process, while the Venezuelan side said it was to discuss migration and the lifting of economic sanctions.... Read More

*Venezuela’s government led by Nicolás Maduro has said that it “energetically rejects” an “illegal oil production licence granted by Guyana to oil companies in the Stabroek block”.... Read More

On 12 April Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva travelled to a meat processing plant owned by agribusiness giant JBS in the major agricultural state of Mato Grosso do Sul.... Read More

*Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its latest figures for the country’s services sector, which showed a monthly decrease of 0.9% in services volume in February.... Read More

*The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s executive board has announced that it has concluded the sixth review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Costa Rica, allowing for a disbursement equivalent to about US$270m.... Read More

On 14 April Arturo Zaldívar, former chief justice of the Mexican supreme court (SCJN), dismissed allegations of corruption made against him, claiming that their intention is “purely political-electoral” and designed to oppose the ‘fourth transformation’ (4T) the name for the current government’s political movement.  ... Read More

*Mexico’s agriculture & rural development ministry (Sader) has revealed that the country’s agrifood (agriculture and agro-industrial) trade balance registered a surplus of US$1.49bn in the first two months of 2024.... Read More

On 14 April Argentina’s President Javier Milei held an emergency cabinet meeting in the presidential palace Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires to which he invited Israel’s ambassador, Eyal Sela, to discuss the crisis in the Middle East.... Read More

*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released the latest consumer price index for March, which shows a decrease in monthly inflation for the third consecutive month.... Read More

Ecuador/Mexico: On 9 April US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan condemned the storming of the Mexican embassy in Quito by Ecuadorean troops on 5 April, who arrested Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas (2013-2017) on corruption charges.... Read More