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LatinNews Daily - 20 November 2024
Main Briefing
On 19 November US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recognised the exiled opposition candidate Edmundo González as Venezuela’s “president-elect”.... Read More
Andean
*Bolivia’s President Luis Arce has met China’s President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, which Arce is attending as a guest of Brazil’s government.... Read More
Brazil
On 19 November Brazil’s federal police (PF) arrested military officers suspected of participating in a plot in 2022 that could have involved assassinating President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, and supreme court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes.... Read More
*Brazil’s lower chamber of congress has approved a bill (PL 182/2024) proposing a regulatory framework for the trading of carbon credits.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 19 November Lionel Lazarre, deputy spokesperson for Haiti’s police (PNd’H), told the media that at least 28 suspected gang members had been killed by PNd’H officials and residents in Pétion-Ville, a wealthy Port-au-Prince suburb.... Read More
*Suriname’s finance minister, Stanley Raghoebarsing, has announced a debt rescheduling agreement with China with the media reporting that the first repayments would come this year.... Read More
Mexico
On 19 November a commission of Mexico’s lower chamber of congress unanimously approved a planned reform of Article 21 of the constitution, designed to increase the powers of the security ministry (SSPC).... Read More
*International credit ratings agency Moody’s has reduced its GDP growth forecast for Mexico to 1.5% for 2024 and 1.3% for 2025, down from mid-year estimates of 2.4% and 1.5% respectively, as widely reported in the media.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 19 November a Santiago court judge ordered that Chile’s former deputy interior minister Manuel Monsalve be held in preventive detention on charges of rape, setting a four-month deadline for the case against him to be finalised.... Read More
*Argentina’s President Javier Milei has held his first meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Brazil.... Read More
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- VENEZUELA: US recognises González as ‘president-elect’
- In brief: Bolivia’s Arce seeks Chinese investment in meeting with Xi
- BRAZIL: Police uncover alleged plot to murder Lula in 2022
- In brief: Brazil’s congress passes carbon markets regulation bill
- HAITI: Gang members killed amid rising violence
- In brief: Suriname announce China debt rescheduling
- MEXICO: Moves to create a security super ministry
- In brief: Moody’s cuts Mexico growth forecast
- CHILE: Monsalve case triggers “darkest day” for Boric
- In brief: Argentina’s Milei and China’s Xi hold first meeting