LatinNews Daily - 04 February 2026

On 3 February Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro met US President Donald Trump at the White House, with both leaders describing the meeting as positive despite bilateral tensions having remained high for over a year.... Read More

*Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has travelled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend the World Governments Summit and bilateral meetings with the UAE government.... Read More

Today (4 February) international NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlighted the findings from its annual report which warned of high levels of police killings in Brazil and called for the adoption of new security strategies to ensure police uphold the law.... Read More

*Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its latest figures for the country’s industrial production, showing this registered a monthly drop of 1.2% in December 2025 although was up 0.4% year-on-year.... Read More

On 3 February Panama Ports Company (PPC), a subsidiary of Hong Kong-headquartered CK Hutchison Holdings, began arbitration proceedings against Panama over a recent supreme court (CSJ) ruling striking down its contract for two ports, Cristóbal and Balboa, on the Panama Canal as China warned Panama of “heavy prices” to pay.... Read More

*Panama’s trade & industry ministry (Mici) has released new figures showing that the country’s exports (excluding from duty-free zones) totalled a record US$980.1m in 2025, which it described as a “historic” level over the past 16 years, and up 1.6% on 2024.... Read More

On 3 February the US government announced that Mexico had agreed to fulfil the delivery of water according to the schedule set under the bilateral 1944 Water Treaty.... Read More

*Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has presented a new spending plan which earmarks M$5.6tn (US$324.24bn) in public-private investment in infrastructure between 2026 and 2030, when her term comes to an end.... Read More

On 3 February Uruguay’s President Yamandú Orsi met with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing.... Read More

*Paraguay’s central bank (BCP) has published its latest consumer price index, putting monthly inflation in January at 0.6%, up from -0.3% in December, while annual inflation came in at 2.7%, down from 3.1% in December.... Read More