LatinNews Daily - 02 December 2025

On 1 December Ana Paola Hall, a member of Honduras’ national electoral council (CNE), called for calm as preliminary results from the 30 November general election put opposition presidential candidates Nasry Asfura (Partido Nacional, PN) and Salvador Nasralla (Partido Liberal, PL) in a technical tie.... Read More

On 1 December Colombia’s attorney general’s office filed charges against former finance minister Ricardo Bonilla (2023-2024) and interior minister Luis Fernando Velasco (2023-2024) for allegedly leading a vote-buying scheme in congress.... Read More

*Bolivia’s central bank (BCB) has begun publishing a daily reference exchange rate for the US dollar in an attempt to bring stability to the parallel foreign exchange market.... Read More

On 1 December General Walter Braga Netto, an ally of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) who was convicted in September for plotting a coup after the 2022 election, filed an appeal before the supreme court (STF).... Read More

*Brazil’s state development bank (BNDES) has announced that it will invest R$4.64bn (US$860m) to finance expansion, modernisation, and maintenance works in 11 airports around the country.... Read More

*The Dominican Republic’s tourism ministry has released new figures showing that 10.28m tourists visited the country in the first 11 months of 2025, which it said guarantees that the year will close with “record” tourism figures.... Read More

On 1 December Joaquín Guzmán López, one of the leaders of the Los Chapitos faction of Mexico’s Cártel de Sinaloa and a son of the imprisoned former drug kingpin Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, pleaded guilty to charges of drug trafficking and organised crime in the US.... Read More

*Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) has announced that remittances sent to the country in October totalled US$5.64bn, representing a year-on-year decrease of 1.7%.... Read More

On 1 December the Chilean government announced it had reached a new agreement with Peru to improve migratory and police controls in the border region.... Read More

*Chile’s central bank (BCCh) has released the latest figures for its economic activity index (Imacec), which showed a 2.2% year-on-year rise in October and a 0.7% increase as compared to September.... Read More