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LatinNews Daily - 06 January 2026
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On 5 January Venezuela’s former president Nicolás Maduro (2013-2026) pleaded not guilty to drugs and weapons charges in a New York court.... Read More
Andean
*The director of the Bolivian workers’ union Central Obrera Boliviana (COB), Mario Argollo, has announced a national campaign of roadblocks to demand the reinstatement of fuel subsidies which were cut by President Rodrigo Paz’s government in December.... Read More
Brazil
On 5 January Brazil’s vegetable oil industry association (Abiove), which includes the country’s largest soy producers and traders, announced it will withdraw from the soy moratorium, a private-sector agreement signed in 2006 that bans trading soybeans from land in the Amazon biome deforested after 2008.... Read More
*Jhonatan de Jesus, a member of Brazil’s federal audit court (TCU), has ordered an investigation into the central bank (BCB)’s November decision to liquidate Banco Master, a private bank.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 5 January Costa Rica’s judicial investigation agency (OIJ) revealed that there were 873 homicides in Costa Rica in 2025.... Read More
*The new US ambassador-designate to Costa Rica, Melinda Hildebrand, has highlighted “Chinese economic influence” as a key challenge facing Costa Rica, as outlined in a press release issued as she arrived in San José yesterday ahead of assuming her duties on 8 January.... Read More
Mexico
On 5 January Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum reaffirmed her country’s rejection of US intervention in Venezuela, stating that the history of Latin America showed that “intervention has never brought democracy”.... Read More
*Mexico’s finance ministry (SHCP) has announced that it has raised US$9bn in its first international bond sale of the year.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 5 January Argentina’s central bank (BCRA) purchased US dollars on the foreign exchange market for the first time since the introduction of a new monetary programme designed to bolster international reserves last week.... Read More
*Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released the latest figures for its consumer price index (IPC), putting monthly inflation at –0.09% in December, while the annual rate stood at 3.65%.... Read More
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