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LatinNews Daily - 22 April 2024
Main Briefing
On 21 April Ecuadorean voters approved nine out of 11 referendum proposals put forward by President Daniel Noboa’s government, authorising changes to security policy aimed at weakening the growing power of criminal gangs.... Read More
Andean
*Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in Colombia to protest against the government led by President Gustavo Petro.... Read More
Brazil
On 21 April Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) and other notable right-wing figures held a rally in the Copacabana neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro.... Read More
*Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has hosted a meeting with the South America head of Japanese car manufacturer Honda, Arata Ichinose, in which the company confirmed that it would invest R$4.2bn (US$806.5m) in its operations in Brazil from 2024-2030.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 19 April Guatemala’s environment ministry (Marn) announced that it was seeking to cancel the environmental licence for the Cerro Blanco gold mining operation in Jutiapa department, which is close to the border with El Salvador, thereby paving the way for it to be revoked.... Read More
*Cuba’s national statistics office (ONEI) has released new figures showing that over 809,000 tourists visited Cuba in the first three months of 2024, up 7.5% on the same period in 2023.... Read More
Mexico
On 21 April security forces in Mexico arrested Abraham ‘Don Rodo’ Oseguera Cervantes, the brother of Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera Cervantes, the alleged leader of the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), one of the country’s most powerful drug trafficking organisations (DTOs).... Read More
*Mexico’s economy ministry (SE) has revealed that foreign companies made a total of 93 new investment announcements between 1 January and 15 April 2024, with expected investment of US$36.15bn.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 19 April Argentina’s President Javier Milei addressed the exclusive Llao Llao Forum, attended by some 120 top business leaders, in the resort city of Bariloche, in the southern province of Río Negro, to outline his government’s progress in turning around the country’s economic crisis.... Read More
*Chile’s government led by President Gabriel Boric has published decrees imposing six-month anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese steel products.... Read More
Washington Watch
Suriname: On 12 April the US Department of State designated Suriname’s former president Desi Bouterse (2010-2020) and six former Surinamese military officials – Benny Brondenstein, Stephanus Marinus Dendoe, Iwan Dijksteel, Ernst Gefferie, Kenneth Kempes, and Lucien Lewis – for involvement in “gross violations of human rights”.... Read More
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- ECUADOR: Voters back sweeping security reforms in referendum
- In brief: Massive protests against Colombia’s Petro
- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro and far-right supporters rally in Rio
- In brief: Japanese carmaker Honda launches investments in Brazil
- GUATEMALA: Gov’t under pressure over mining project
- In brief: Cuba claims rise in tourism
- MEXICO: Security forces capture brother of CJNG leader
- In brief: Mexico announces new foreign investments
- ARGENTINA: Milei sounds upbeat note to big business
- In brief: Chile imposes temporary tariffs on Chinese steel
- US designates Suriname’s Bouterse