LatinNews Daily - 6 January 2025

On 4 January the exiled Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González, widely regarded as the winner of the July 2024 presidential election, launched a regional tour aimed at exerting pressure on President Nicolás Maduro ahead of the 10 January inauguration ceremony.... Read More

*Bolivia’s national statistics institute (INE) has announced that monthly inflation in December was 1.06%, down from 1.45% in November.... Read More

On 4 January several Brazilian civil society groups that campaign for indigenous rights released a joint statement condemning recent acts of violence committed against Avá Guaraní people in the southern state of Paraná.... Read More

*The office of Brazil’s solicitor general (AGU) has announced that Brazilian airlines Gol and Azul have reached agreements to settle tax debts it owes to the government.... Read More

On 4 January 75 Guatemalan soldiers arrived in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, to join the Kenya-led United Nations (UN)-authorised multinational security support mission to Haiti (MSS).... Read More

*Ramesh Ghir, the CEO of Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), the country’s main international airport, has said Guyana “achieved a significant milestone in 2024” after 1m international passengers transited in and out of its ports of entry, surpassing President Irfaan Ali’s initial prediction that this threshold would be reached in 2025.... Read More

On 5 January authorities in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas announced the arrest of José Antonio Villatoro, the mayor of Frontera Comalapa municipality, for alleged corruption.... Read More

*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures revealing that the unemployment rate of the economically active population – consisting of 61.6m people aged 15 and older – rose to 2.6% in November 2024, up from 2.5% recorded in October of the same year.... Read More

On 3 January Francisco Luis Correa Galeano, who was convicted last year for planning the high-profile assassination of Paraguay’s special prosecutor against organised crime, Marcelo Pecci, in May 2022, was murdered in his prison cell in Bogotá.... Read More

*Argentina’s central bank (BCRA) has announced a repurchase agreement (repo) worth US$1bn with five international banks, as President Javier Milei seeks to shore up international reserves.... Read More

Central America: On 27 December the US Department of State issued its latest iteration of its ‘Corrupt and Undemocratic Actors’ list (the so-called ‘Engel List’), which was first issued in 2021 and included individuals from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.... Read More