LatinNews Daily - 3 April 2025

On 2 April US President Donald Trump announced that Mexico would not be subject to his new 10% global baseline tariff, which has been levied against imports from other countries in the region, as well as higher rates of 38%, 15%, and 18% targeting Guyana, Venezuela, and Nicaragua respectively.... Read More

On 2 April US prosecutors announced charges against the alleged leader of the Ecuadorean gang Los Choneros, José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias ‘Fito’.... Read More

*The president of Bolivia’s state hydrocarbons company, Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Armin Dorgathen, has said that Bolivia will earn up to US$200m per year by transporting Argentine natural gas to Brazil via Bolivian pipelines.... Read More

On 2 April Brazilian supreme court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes, the judge overseeing a case regarding an alleged coup plot to overturn the 2022 election defeat of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023), rejected a request for Bolsonaro to be arrested and placed in pre-trial detention.... Read More

*Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its figures for industrial production in February, which showed a slight monthly slump of 0.1%.... Read More

On 2 April thousands took to the streets in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince to protest against insecurity and gang violence, calling for the resignation of the nine-member transitional presidential council (TPC) and head of the police (PNd’H).... Read More

*APM Terminals, a Netherlands-based subsidiary of Danish shipping company Maersk, has acquired the Panama Canal Railway Company (PCRC) from Canadian railway holding company Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and the US-headquartered Lanco Group/Mi-Jack, a firm which manufactures material handling equipment.... Read More

*The Costa Rica-based Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) has announced that it has signed a general cooperation and project management agreement with Mexico.... Read More

On 2 April Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei met fierce criticism from politicians of diverse stripes when he expressed hopes that residents of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) might one day “prefer” to be Argentine rather than British.... Read More

*Paraguay’s central bank (BCP) has released inflation figures for March, which put monthly inflation at 1.2%, up from 0.4% in February, and annual inflation at 4.4%, up from 4.3% the previous month.... Read More