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LatinNews Daily - 11 March 2025
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On 10 March preliminary results from Honduras’ 9 March primaries indicated that Defence Minister Rixi Moncada would be the presidential candidate for the ruling leftist Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre), ahead of 30 November general elections.... Read More
Andean
On 10 March Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld told the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (UNCND) that drug-related homicides fell by 15.4% between 2023 and 2024.... Read More
*Bolivia’s hydrocarbons minister, Alejandro Gallardo, has blamed renewed fuel shortages on low reserves of hard currency which are restricting fuel imports from abroad.... Read More
Brazil
On 10 March Brazilian diplomat André Corrêa do Lago, the president for this year’s United Nations climate change conference (COP30) due to take place in Brazil in November, published his first open letter indicating some of the priorities for the COP process.... Read More
*The Brazilian meat industry association, Associação Brasileira de Proteína Animal (Abpa), has released its figures for poultry exports in February, showing a total of 468,400 tonnes (t) exported.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
*The Colombia-based journalism foundation, Fundación Gabo, and US-based press freedom lobby group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have condemned the decision by Guatemalan judge Erick García to return prominent journalist José Rubén Zamora to prison on money laundering charges, which are widely considered trumped up.... Read More
Mexico
On 10 March Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum described the discovery of three crematoria and burnt human remains in the municipality of Teuchitlán, in the western state of Jalisco, as “obviously terrible” during her daily press conference.... Read More
*Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has said that she will send a letter to US legislators in response to a request they made in a letter dated 7 March for US President Donald Trump to “demand a resolution” for US construction firm Vulcan Materials which owns a deep-water port and limestone quarry (Calica) in Mexico’s Quintana Roo state.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 10 March Chile’s defence minister, Maya Fernández, resigned along with President Gabriel Boric’s top adviser, Miguel Crispi.... Read More
*Argentina’s President Javier Milei has signed a decree of necessity and urgency (DNU) that paves the way for a new accord with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) without the need for congressional approval.... Read More
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- ECUADOR: Gov’t hails drop in homicides
- In brief: Dollar shortage hits fuel supply in Bolivia
- BRAZIL: COP30 president’s letter omits oil concerns
- In brief: Brazil’s poultry exports up in yearly terms
- In brief: Prominent Guatemalan journalist returned to prison
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- CHILE: Double resignation damages Boric
- In brief: Milei decree moves Argentina closer to new IMF deal