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LatinNews Daily - 2 June 2025
Main Briefing
On 1 June voters across Mexico went to the polls to elect thousands of members of the federal and local judiciary, in the country’s first-ever judicial elections.... Read More
Andean
On 30 May the leading Venezuelan opposition figure Henrique Capriles Radonski expressed concern over a temporary order that day by the US supreme court allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to end humanitarian parole for migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua.... Read More
*The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded an Article IV Consultation with Bolivia, outlining a number of concerns over the country’s economic direction.... Read More
Brazil
On 30 May Eduardo Bolsonaro, a Brazilian federal deputy and the third son of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023), gave an interview to conservative political magazine Veja in which he hinted that he would consider running for president next year.... Read More
*Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the country’s GDP growth figures for the first quarter of this year, showing a rise of 1.4% from the previous quarter and a 2.9% increase compared to the same quarter last year.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 1 June Honduras’ journalists’ association, Colegio de Periodistas de Honduras (CPH), condemned the murder that day of journalist Javier Antonio Hércules Salinas, shot dead in Santa Rosa de Copán municipality, Copán department.... Read More
*Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals (FQM), which owns Panama’s largest mine Cobre Panamá, has announced that it has received government approval for a preservation and safe management programme for the mine, which was shuttered in late 2023 following major unrest over a revised contract with FQM.... Read More
Mexico
*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has reported that the unemployment rate of the economically active population stood at 2.5% in April 2025, compared to 2.6% in the same month of the previous year.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 1 June Chile’s President Gabriel Boric delivered his final official address to congress, with nine months to go before his term ends in March 2026.... Read More
*Argentina’s President Javier Milei has told streaming service Neura that the target set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) regarding net international reserves, that these should be raised by US$4.4bn as of mid-June on media reports, was “not a problem”.... Read More
Washington Watch
Venezuela: On 23 May US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with five Venezuelan opposition figures who fled the Argentine embassy in Caracas last month, where they had sheltered since March 2024 to avoid arrest under President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government.... Read More
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- MEXICO: Judicial elections hailed as success despite low turnout
- VENEZUELA: Opposition concern as US revokes humanitarian parole
- In brief: IMF calls for urgent measures in Bolivia
- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro political heirs jockey for position
- In brief: Brazil’s GDP growth accelerates in Q1
- HONDURAS: Journalists’ murders spark concern
- In brief: Panama gov’t greenlights Cobre Panamá mine maintenance plan
- In brief: Mexico’s unemployment rate up in monthly terms
- CHILE: Boric hails achievements in congress address
- In brief: Argentina’s Milei claims reserves target ‘not a problem’
- Rubio meets with Venezuelan opposition figures