LatinNews Daily - 3 March 2025

On 1 March Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali denounced an incursion by a “Venezuelan armed patrol ship” in the latest escalation of tensions between Venezuela and Guyana.... Read More

*Ecuador’s government led by President Daniel Noboa has become mired in controversy over an alleged plan to sell the Sacha oil concession in Orellana province, which is the country’s most productive oilfield.... Read More

On 28 February Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva confirmed that federal deputy Gleisi Hoffmann, the national party president of the ruling left-wing Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), will serve as the government’s minister for institutional relations.... Read More

*Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Labour Minister Luiz Marinho have signed a decree to temporarily release some funds from the Fundo de Garantia do Tempo de Serviço (FGTS), a public fund that covers severance pay packages to employees.... Read More

On 1 March Haiti’s Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé announced “several” gang members had been killed in a police (PNd’H) operation in the Delmas neighbourhood in the capital, Port-au-Prince – the stronghold of prominent gang leader Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier.... Read More

*Honduras’ state electricity company Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (ENEE) has announced that 100% of electricity has been restored after Honduras was hit by a national blackout on 1 March.... Read More

On 2 March Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum insisted that her country should be treated “as an equal” and in no way subordinate to policies imposed by Washington, ahead of the expected announcement of new US tariffs on Mexican products due today (3 March).... Read More

*Mexico’s tourism minister, Josefina Rodríguez Zamora, has announced that foreign direct investment (FDI) in the tourism sector totalled US$2.871bn in 2024, marginally higher than the total for 2023 (US$2.870bn).... Read More

On 1 March Yamandú Orsi was sworn-in for a five-year term as Uruguay’s new president.... Read More

*Chile’s national statistics institute (INE) has released its latest industrial production figures, revealing a 1.9% year-on-year increase in January 2025.... Read More

Mexico: On 27 February US Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced that the US had secured custody that day of 29 defendants from Mexico who are “facing charges in districts around the country relating to racketeering, drug-trafficking, murder, illegal use of firearms, money laundering, and other crimes”, according to a US Department of Justice (DoJ) statement.... Read More