LatinNews Daily - 11 November 2024

On 10 November a decree signed by eight of the nine members of Haiti’s transitional presidential council (TPC) was leaked, which replaced the interim prime minister, Garry Conille, with businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé.... Read More

Ecuador’s general elections, due to be held in February, were plunged into controversy on 10 November, with Vice President Verónica Abad accusing her own government of planning a coup d’état, while the electoral authorities disqualified one of the main contenders in the presidential race.... Read More

*Colombia’s national statistics department (Dane) has released the consumer price index for October showing monthly deflation of 0.13%, bringing the annual rate to 5.41%.... Read More

On 8 November a man was executed in broad daylight in Brazil’s Guarulhos airport in São Paulo, purportedly in relation to his involvement with the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), Brazil’s main drug trafficking organisation (DTO). ... Read More

*Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its consumer price index (Ipca) for October, which showed a monthly inflation rate of 0.56%.... Read More

*Costa Rica’s national statistics institute (Inec) has released new figures showing that monthly inflation was -0.57% in October, bringing the year-on-year rate to -0.79%.... Read More

On 9 November Mexico’s national defence ministry (Defensa, previously Sedena) announced the arrest of a local leader of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organisation (DTO) in Nuevo León state.... Read More

*International credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings has warned that the victory of Donald Trump in the US elections on 5 November “could have multiple significant implications on the economic and financial stability of the Mexican states, especially those with economies that are strongly linked to trade, investment, and remittances coming from the US”.... Read More

The killing of two football fan gang leaders on 9 November, as a match was being played in the Gigante de Arroyito stadium in Rosario, Argentina’s third largest city, has put the authorities on the alert for fear of a new surge in gang violence.... Read More

*Chile’s national statistics institute (INE) has published the most recent data for the consumer price index (CPI), indicating that monthly inflation for October was 1%, bringing the yearly rate to 4.7%.... Read More

Mexico: On 31 October the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) sanctioned five Mexican nationals and two Mexico-based entities linked to La Línea, a Mexico-based drug trafficking organisation (DTO) responsible for trafficking fentanyl and other drugs into the US.... Read More