LatinNews Daily - 10 April 2025

On 10 April Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gave at speech at the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) in Honduras in which he criticised the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.... Read More

On 9 April the Bolivian businessman Samuel Doria Medina was named as the presidential candidate for the conservative opposition coalition Bloque de Unidad in the 17 August general elections, on the same day that two leading opposition figures abandoned the alliance.... Read More

*Venezuela’s main opposition coalition, Plataforma Unitaria Democrática (PUD), has criticised a decree signed by President Nicolás Maduro on 8 April which declared an economic emergency.... Read More

*Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its latest figures for the country’s retail sales, which showed that the monthly sales volume in February was up 0.5% from January and up 1.5% from February last year.... Read More

On 9 April Costa Rica’s justice minister, Gerald Campos Valverde, was widely cited by the local media as saying that recent agreements with the Salvadorean government led by authoritarian President Nayib Bukele could save Costa Rica US$25m in the construction of a new prison.... Read More

*Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Stuart Young has announced that the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) has revoked licences granted to British multinational oil firms Shell and BP, and Trinidad’s state-owned Natural Gas Company (NGC) for the development of two offshore natural gas projects between Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela – Dragon (developed by Shell and NGC) and Cocuina-Manakin (a development by BP and NGC).... Read More

On 9 April authorities in Mexico’s southwestern state of Guerrero announced an investigation had been opened following the killing of 11 men in Rancho Viejo, Tecoanapa municipality. ... Read More

*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released the consumer price index (INPC) for March, reporting a monthly inflation rate of 0.31%, up from 0.28% in February.... Read More

On 9 April leading trade unions joined pensioners in another day of anti-government protests in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires, ahead of a planned national strike today (10 April).... Read More

*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has announced that industrial manufacturing increased by 5.6% year-on-year in February, and by 0.5% compared with January.... Read More