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LatinNews Daily - 12 November 2024
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Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa appointed a new government minister and, crucially, a new acting vice president on 11 November amid rolling power cuts and preparations for the general elections in February 2025.... Read More
Andean
*Bolivia’s supreme electoral court (TSE) has confirmed that judicial elections scheduled for 15 December to pick judges for the constitutional court (TCP), supreme court (TSJ), agro-environmental court, and the judicial council, will go ahead.... Read More
Brazil
On 11 November Brazil’s central bank (BCB) released the fiscal statistics for September, which showed a monthly reduction in the primary deficit of the public sector.... Read More
*Brazil’s national council of coffee exporters (Cecafé) has released its figures for October, which showed an export volume of 4.93m sacks of coffee (one sack = 60 kg), up 11.6% year-on-year.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 11 November businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé was sworn in as Haiti’s new prime minister.... Read More
*El Salvador’s authoritarian President Nayib Bukele has begun a two-day visit to Costa Rica where he has met with his right-of-centre Costa Rican counterpart, Rodrigo Chaves.... Read More
Mexico
On 11 November Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum stated that the federal public security ministry (SSPC) and armed forces were supporting authorities in Querétaro state following a massacre in a bar that left ten dead.... Read More
*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released the report for its monthly index of industrial activity (Imai), showing that industrial activity grew 0.6% in monthly terms and did not change in yearly terms in September.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 11 November Argentina’s far-right government led by President Javier Milei published a decree in the official gazette announcing the deregulation of the postal service.... Read More
*Paraguay’s chamber of deputies has approved the government’s 2025 budget proposal of some G$132.9trn (US$16.93bn), an increase of 14% in comparison to the 2024 budget.... Read More
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- ECUADOR: Noboa conducts reshuffle ahead of elections
- In brief: Judicial elections confirmed in Bolivia amid Morales setback
- BRAZIL: Concerns over public finances persist despite drop in deficit
- In brief: Brazil’s coffee exports up in October
- HAITI: New PM takes over amid escalating violence
- In brief: Costa Rica and El Salvador presidents boost ties
- MEXICO: Gov’t responds to Querétaro massacre
- In brief: Industrial production up in Mexico
- ARGENTINA: Milei deepens deregulation
- In brief: Paraguay’s lower chamber approves 2025 budget