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LatinNews Daily - 23 April 2024
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On 22 April Venezuela’s supreme court (TSJ) intervened in the opposition party Primero Justicia (PJ), installing an ‘ad hoc’ leadership committee headed by José Brito, who is widely viewed as a saboteur working for President Nicolás Maduro’s government.... Read More
Andean
*Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has announced that Jorge Márquez will take over as electricity minister, replacing Néstor Reverol.... Read More
Brazil
On 22 April Brazil’s leading indigenous organisations took to the streets in Brasília on the first day of a five-day demonstration known as the ‘Acampamento Terra Livre’ (ATL), the country’s largest annual indigenous march.... Read More
*Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a decree launching a new programme dubbed ‘Acredita’ (Believe), which will aim to renegotiate debts and incentivise investments for individual entrepreneurs and small businesses.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 22 April Panama’s government led by President Laurentino Cortizo recalled its ambassador to Nicaragua, José de Jesús Martínez, for consultations.... Read More
*Nicaragua’s government led by President Daniel Ortega has authorised a mining concession spanning over 36,600 hectares (ha) to Chinese owned company Nicaragua Xinxin Linze Minería Group, S.A in the municipalities of Siuna and Mulukukú, in the indigenous North Atlantic autonomous region (Raan).... Read More
Mexico
On 22 April Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador dismissed as “propaganda” a video in which masked men urged Claudia Sheinbaum, the frontrunner in the 2 June presidential elections, to address violence in the southern state of Chiapas.... Read More
*Mexico’s lower chamber of deputies has approved a reform to create a new pension fund with 252 votes in favour, 212 against, and four abstentions.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 22 April Argentina’s President Javier Milei celebrated achieving a fiscal surplus in the first quarter of 2024.... Read More
*Rodrigo Díaz Worner, the governor of Chile’s southern Biobío region, has announced that steel producer Compañía Siderúrgica Huachipato (CSH) is resuming operations.... Read More
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- VENEZUELA: Supreme court intervenes in opposition party
- In brief: New electricity minister appointed in Venezuela
- BRAZIL: Indigenous groups protest setbacks to demarcations
- In brief: Brazil’s gov’t to boost support for small businesses
- PANAMA/NICARAGUA: Tensions rise over Martinelli
- In brief: Nicaragua greenlights China mining licence
- MEXICO: Gov’t downplays Sheinbaum Chiapas incident
- In brief: Mexico’s lower chamber approves new pension fund
- ARGENTINA: Milei dines out on fiscal surplus figures
- In brief: Chile steel plant reopens following China tariffs