LatinNews Daily - 7 January 2025

On 6 January the exiled Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González met with US President Joe Biden in Washington, as well as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for national security adviser, Mike Waltz.... Read More

*The Observatorio Venezolano de Finanzas (OVF), a Venezuelan economic think tank, has calculated that monthly inflation in December was 14.8%, up from the OVF’s previous estimate of 12.5% in November.... Read More

On 6 January a military court that had been overseeing an investigation into army officers who allegedly backed plans for a coup d’état in 2022 transferred the case to Brazil’s supreme court (STF).... Read More

*Brazil’s ministry for development, industry, trade, and services (MDIC) has released its latest trade figures, which show a monthly trade surplus of US$4.8bn in December 2024 and an annual surplus of US$74.6bn.... Read More

On 6 January Honduran private sector lobby Consejo Hondureño de la Empresa Privada (Cohep) called on the leftist Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) government led by President Xiomara Castro to come up with a “clear plan” in the face of the threat by US President-elect Donald Trump to send migrants back to Honduras.... Read More

*Guatemala’s Finance Minister Jonathan Menkos has said that a minimum wage rise announced last month will have a “positive effect on the economy”.... Read More

On 6 January authorities in Mexico’s Guanajuato state announced that eight alleged members of a criminal organisation had been killed in a clash with security forces in Yuriria municipality.... Read More

*Mexico’s finance ministry (SHCP) has announced that it has placed bonds worth US$8.5bn on the international market.... Read More

On 6 January Chile’s President Gabriel Boric dismissed his minister of national assets,  Marcela Sandoval, over a controversial attempt to procure the residence of former president Salvador Allende (1970-1973) for the state.... Read More

*Argentina’s President Javier Milei has signed a decree creating the Agencia Nacional de Puertos y Navegación (Anpyn), a new national port authority that will replace the deputy ministry of ports and navigable waterways (Subsecretaría de Puertos y Vías Navegables), which sat under the economy ministry, and the Administración General de Puertos Sociedad Anónima Unipersonal (AGP), the former port authority.... Read More