LatinNews Daily - 13 March 2025

On 12 March a protest of pensioners against austerity descended into violence in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires as the retirees were joined by members of football ultras and security forces violently repressed the demonstration. ... Read More

On 12 March Peru’s congress approved a bill which would increase government oversight over NGOs that receive funding from abroad.... Read More

*Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has announced an economic reactivation plan aimed at revitalising the country’s economy.... Read More

On 12 March Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) released the inflation figures for February, which showed a monthly inflation rate of 1.31%, up from 0.16% in January, putting the annual rate at 5.06%, up from 4.56% the previous month.... Read More

*Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea), a Brazilian government-run research institution, has warned that Brazil’s steel industry could lose US$1.5bn in export value this year and production could drop by 700,000 tonnes due to tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.... Read More

On 12 March Guatemala’s interior minister, Francisco Jiménez, announced the arrest in Mexico of Aler Baldomero Samayoa Recinos, alias 'Chicharra', one of the main leaders of Guatemalan drug trafficking organisation (DTO) Los Huistas.... Read More

*The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has extended its ban on civil aviation flights into Haiti until 8 September 2025, citing “safety-of-flight risks associated with ongoing instability”.... Read More

On 12 March more clandestine burial sites were discovered in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, following the discovery of human remains in an ‘extermination camp’ in the western state of Jalisco.... Read More

*Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has said that the government will wait until US President Donald Trump decides next month whether or not to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican imports in general before responding to the global 25% tariff on steel and aluminium imports into the US which took effect yesterday.... Read More

*Chile’s subsecretariat for international relations has announced that goods exports increased by 5.8% year-on-year in the first two months of 2025, totalling US$18.39bn.... Read More