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LatinNews Daily - 10 March 2025
Main Briefing
On 7 March Colombia’s Defence Minister Pedro Sánchez denounced the “kidnapping” of 29 members of the security forces the previous day in the southwestern department of Cauca.... Read More
Andean
*Colombia’s national statistics department (Dane) has announced that monthly inflation in February was 1.14%, up from 0.94% in January.... Read More
Brazil
On 7 March Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) released figures showing that the country's annual GDP growth rate for 2024 was 3.4%.... Read More
*Brazil’s ministry for development, industry, trade, and services (MDIC) has released its trade figures for the month of February, which showed a trade deficit of US$323.7m.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 7 March Haiti’s former interim prime minister Fritz-Alphonse Jean (2016) took over from former minister for Haitians living abroad Leslie Voltaire (2004) as head of the nine-member transitional presidential council (TPC) for a six-month term.... Read More
*The Cuban government has announced price caps on rice and common beans (black, red, and white) produced nationally (both key staples of Cubans’ diet).... Read More
Mexico
On 9 March Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum addressed a large rally in the Zócalo, the central Mexico City (CDMX) plaza, saying that “dialogue” and “respect” had contributed to a pause in US President Donald Trump’s plans to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican goods entering the US.... Read More
*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released the consumer price index (INPC) for February, reporting a monthly inflation rate of 0.28%, down from 0.29% in January.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 7 March Uruguay’s President Yamandú Orsi completed the process of swearing-in his new cabinet after his investiture six days earlier.... Read More
*Chile’s national statistics institute (INE) has published the most recent data for the consumer price index (CPI), indicating that monthly inflation for February was 0.4%, bringing the yearly rate to 4.7%.... Read More
Washington Watch
Venezuela: On 4 March the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) issued a new general licence concerning the winding down of US oil firm Chevron’s activities in Venezuela.... Read More
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- COLOMBIA: Security personnel taken hostage in Cauca
- In brief: Inflation picks up in Colombia
- BRAZIL: Lula boosted by strong GDP figures
- In brief: Brazil posts trade deficit in February
- HAITI: New head of transitional presidential council
- In brief: Cuba imposes price caps on rice and beans
- MEXICO: Sheinbaum celebrates tariff ‘pause’
- In brief: Mexico’s annual inflation picks up
- URUGUAY: Orsi concludes cabinet inauguration
- In brief: Chile’s inflation slows
- Venezuela threatens to end migration cooperation with US