LatinNews Daily - 01 December 2025

Early results from Honduras’ 30 November general elections show Nasry Asfura, the presidential candidate for the conservative opposition Partido Nacional (PN), narrowly ahead of Salvador Nasralla, of the fellow opposition Partido Liberal (PL).... Read More

On 30 November US President Donald Trump confirmed that he had spoken recently with Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro amid surging military tensions that saw Trump declare the closure of Venezuelan airspace on 29 November.... Read More

*Ecuador’s national assembly has approved the government’s budget proposal for 2026 with 78 votes in favour, 66 against, and four abstentions.... Read More

On 30 November Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gave a TV address in which he highlighted government initiatives such as the income tax reform he promulgated last week which shifts the tax burden from lower earners onto the country’s wealthiest citizens.... Read More

*Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released the latest fiscal statistics for the public sector, showing a primary surplus of R$32.4bn (US$6.07bn) in October.... Read More

*Nicaragua’s central bank (BCN) has released new figures showing that the country’s exports totalled US$6.81bn in the first nine months of 2025, up 15.8% on the same period the previous year.... Read More

On 30 November Mexico’s former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024) reappeared to promote his new book, more than a year after he left the presidency and withdrew from public life.... Read More

*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has reported that the unemployment rate of the economically active population stood at 2.6% in October 2025, compared to 2.5% in the same month of the previous year and 3.0% in September.... Read More

On 30 November the Partido de la Gente (PDG) announced that after holding an online consultation it has decided not to support any of the candidates in Chile’s presidential run-off on 14 December.... Read More

*Chile’s national statistics institute (INE) has released the latest figures for its industrial production index (IPI), which show a 0.4% annual decrease and a 0.3% monthly drop in October.... Read More

Haiti: On 24 November the US Department of State announced that it was taking steps to impose visa restrictions on a Haitian government official for “supporting gangs and other criminal organizations, and obstructing the government of Haiti’s fight against terrorist gangs designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations”. It did not identify the individual but Fritz-Alphonse Jean, a member of Haiti’s nine-strong transitional presidential council (CPT), has since come forward and said that it was him.... Read More