LatinNews Daily - 15 April 2025

On 14 April, during a meeting at the White House, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele told US President Donald Trump that his government would not release a man deported in error last month and held in the country’s ‘Terrorism Containment Centre’ (Cecot) mega-prison.... Read More

On 14 April Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa was widely congratulated by his regional counterparts on his election victory the previous day over Luisa González, whose allegations of fraud have not found much traction.... Read More

*The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has published its latest monthly oil market report, in which Venezuela claimed to have produced 1.05m barrels of crude per day (bpd) in March, up from 1.03m in February.... Read More

On 14 April Sóstenes Cavalcante, the leader in the lower house of Brazil’s right-wing Partido Liberal (PL), formally submitted a motion to fast-track a bill that proposes pardoning the far-right rioters who stormed the seats of government on 8 January 2023.... Read More

*Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a decree (‘medida provisória’, MP) that revises the brackets for income tax (IR) and mandates that taxpayers who earn up to R$3,036 (US$518) per month will be exempt from IR.... Read More

*The Dominican Republic’s President Luis Abinader has been cited by the local media as saying that tighter regulation of the construction sector is needed following the tragedy at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, where a roof collapse on 8 April killed 231 people, according to the latest official death toll announced by the government yesterday.... Read More

On 14 April Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum stated that her government was open to dialogue with teachers and a national strike was not “necessary”.... Read More

*The US Department of Commerce has announced that the US will begin imposing tariffs of almost 21% on most imports of tomatoes from Mexico.... Read More

On 14 April Argentina’s government celebrated the peso surviving its first day floating freely within a band after the lifting of longstanding currency restrictions as President Javier Milei hosted US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent in the Casa Rosada presidential palace.... Read More

*Argentina’s Finance Secretary Pablo Quirno has announced that the government has placed treasury bills and bonds on the domestic market for a total value of Ar$5.02tn (US$4.2bn).... Read More