LatinNews Daily - 16 April 2024

On 12 April Brazil’s foreign minister, Mauro Vieira, hosted his Argentine counterpart Diana Mondino in Brasília, where they affirmed their commitment to align the interests of their ideologically opposed governments.... Read More

On 15 April in his first interview since the start of his country’s diplomatic crisis with Mexico, Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa said he had “no regrets” over his decision to order police to break into the Mexican embassy in Quito and capture former vice president Jorge Glas (2013-2017).... Read More

*Peru’s national statistics institute (Inei) has released figures showing that the country’s economic output increased by 2.85% in February compared to the same month last year.... Read More

*Brazil’s government has submitted to congress the Projeto de Lei de Diretrizes Orçamentárias (PLDO) for 2025, the draft legislation to set the budget guidelines for next year.... Read More

On 15 April Néster Vásquez Pimentel took over as president of Guatemala’s five-member constitutional court (CC) for a one-year term.... Read More

*US tech company Google has announced the opening of new offices in El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador.... Read More

Victims of kidnapping in Mexico rose to a record 521 during March, according to a report released on 15 April by local lobby group Alto al Secuestro, which says undocumented migrants are particularly vulnerable to this type of crime.... Read More

*Mexico’s congressional social security committee has approved a dictamen that would create a new pensions fund – an initiative which will now go to the full plenary.... Read More

On 15 April Chile’s President Gabriel Boric received an offer from his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro to have a direct dialogue about organised crime.... Read More

*Claudio Vidal, the governor of Argentina’s southern province of Santa Cruz, has announced a new economic and investment agreement with the chamber of commerce of Fuzhou, the capital of China’s Fujian province.... Read More