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LatinNews Daily - 22 November 2024
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On 21 November Brazil’s federal police (PF) accused former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) of participating in an alleged conspiracy to launch a military coup and overturn his 2022 election defeat.... Read More
Andean
On 21 November Ecuador’s constitutional court (CC) watered down a state of exception declared in October by President Daniel Noboa, lifting restrictions on the right to free assembly hours before anti-government protests took place in the capital Quito.... Read More
*Bolivia’s institute for foreign trade (IBCE), a private sector lobby, has said that soya exports fell by 708,000 tonnes (t) in the first nine months of the year, compared with the same period in 2023, with the resultant export value falling by US$523m.... Read More
Brazil
*The board of Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras has approved the payment of R$20bn (US$3.4bn) in extraordinary dividends, equivalent to R$1.55 per share.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 21 November Haiti’s Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé called for citizen participation to assist in efforts to restore social peace and announced that a superior police (PNd’H) council (CSPN) had been organised to maintain order in “sensitive areas” and ensure the supply of oil products.... Read More
*A new survey by US-based global architecture, design and planning firm Gensler has found that 87% of Costa Ricans report infrastructure disruptions from severe weather events.... Read More
Mexico
On 21 November Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her government has a plan to receive its citizens from the US if the incoming Donald Trump administration launches mass deportations.... Read More
*Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has said that the Canadian government does not support removing Mexico from the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), after Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under pressure from Canadian provincial and territorial premiers to strike a bilateral trade deal with the US that excludes Mexico.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 21 November final electoral surveys pointed to the narrowest of victories for Yamandú Orsi, the candidate for the left-wing opposition Frente Amplio (FA), in Uruguay’s presidential run-off on 24 November.... Read More
*Taiwan’s executive branch (Yuan) has approved draft amendments proposed by the finance ministry to eliminate tariffs on 17 products from Paraguay, according to Taiwan’s national news agency, Central News Agency (CNA).... Read More
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- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro accused of involvement in alleged coup plot
- ECUADOR: Top court dilutes emergency security measures
- In brief: Concern in Bolivia over drop in soya exports
- In brief: Brazil’s Petrobras approves payment of special dividends
- HAITI: PM responds to violence amid UNSC setback
- In brief: New survey shows impact of extreme weather in Costa Rica
- MEXICO: Sheinbaum has plan to deal with deportations
- In brief: Mexico downplays Canadian calls to exclude it from USMCA
- URUGUAY: Orsi ahead by a whisker, final polls suggest
- In brief: Taiwan eliminates tariffs on 17 Paraguayan products