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LatinNews Daily - 1 October 2024
Main Briefing
On 30 September the United Nations (UN) Security Council (UNSC) renewed its authorisation for the deployment of a Kenyan-led multinational security support mission to Haiti (MSS) for another 12 months.... Read More
Andean
On 30 September Bolivia’s President Luis Arce declared a “national disaster” in response to wildfires which are burning around the country and are particularly fierce in the eastern department of Santa Cruz.... Read More
*Ecuador’s central bank (BCE) has announced that the country’s GDP contracted by 2.2% in the second quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2023.... Read More
Brazil
On 30 September the 37th criminal court of Rio de Janeiro announced that it had convicted Edilson Barbosa dos Santos for participating in one of Brazil’s most high-profile assassinations in recent years, the 2018 killing of Rio city councillor Marielle Franco.... Read More
*Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released the fiscal statistics for August, which showed that the public sector’s monthly primary deficit came to R$21.4bn (US$3.9bn).... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
*El Salvador’s Finance Minister Jerson Posada has presented the government’s proposed budget for 2025 before the 60-member unicameral legislature.... Read More
Mexico
On 30 September Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador marked the final day of his six-year term by promulgating two constitutional reform initiatives.... Read More
*Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has stated that his government is attending to the victims of Hurricane John in the city of Acapulco on Guerrero’s Pacific coast.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 30 September Chile’s far-right opposition Partido Republicano (PR) presented an impeachment motion against the interior minister, Carolina Tohá, days after the resignation of the director general of Chile’s militarised Carabineros police force, Ricardo Yáñez.... Read More
*Chile’s national statistics institute (INE) has released the latest industrial production figures which show that industrial production rose by 5.2% year-on-year in August 2024.... Read More
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- HAITI: Mandate of international security mission renewed
- BOLIVIA: Arce declares national disaster in response to wildfires
- In brief: Ecuador’s GDP shrinks in Q2
- BRAZIL: First conviction in Marielle Franco murder case
- In brief: Brazil’s primary deficit down in yearly terms
- In brief: ‘Zero deficit’ budget proposal unveiled in El Salvador
- MEXICO: López Obrador bids farewell in eventful press conference
- In brief: Mexico’s López Obrador pledges hurricane relief
- CHILE: Far-right opposition guns for interior minister
- In brief: Mining drives industrial production in Chile