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LatinNews Daily - 24 February 2026
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On 23 February the Venezuelan opposition coalition Plataforma Unitaria Democrática (PUD) criticised the amnesty law for political prisoners which was approved on 19 February.... Read More
Andean
*Peru’s national statistics institute (Inei) has announced that the country’s GDP grew by 3.2% year-on-year in the final quarter of 2025.... Read More
Brazil
On 23 February Brazil’s government led by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva revoked a decree signed last year authorising the launch of the privatisation process for port infrastructure in Pará state.... Read More
*Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has led a delegation of government officials to Seoul, who signed various memoranda of understanding with their South Korean counterparts, while the two governments announced more generally that they were upgrading bilateral ties, forged in 1959, to the level of a strategic partnership.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 23 February Salvadorean abortion rights NGO Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto (Agrupación Ciudadana) announced that it was closing after more than two decades.... Read More
*Panama’s government led by President José Raúl Mulino has formally assumed control of the Balboa and Cristóbal ports on the Panama Canal which previously belonged to Panama Ports Company (PPC), a subsidiary of Hong Kong-headquartered CK Hutchison Holdings.... Read More
Mexico
On 23 February Mexican authorities officially announced the death of Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the country’s most powerful drug cartel, Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), after a DNA test to confirm his identity.... Read More
*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released GDP figures for the final quarter of 2025, showing growth rates of 0.9% in quarterly terms and 1.8% in yearly terms.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 23 February Argentina’s judicial workers’ union (UEJN) began a 48-hour strike over the labour reform promoted by the government led by President Javier Milei.... Read More
*The finance secretariat of Argentina’s economy ministry has announced that its next debt auction will take place on 25 February.... Read More
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- VENEZUELA: Opposition criticises amnesty law
- In brief: Peru’s GDP up in 2025
- BRAZIL: Win for indigenous protesters after gov’t revokes waterway decree
- In brief: Brazil deepens ties with South Korea
- EL SALVADOR: Another NGO shutters amid closure of civic space
- In brief: Panama gov’t formally takes control of two ports
- MEXICO: El Mencho death confirmed amid mass military deployment
- In brief: Mexico posts largest quarterly growth of 2025
- ARGENTINA: Unions continue to mobilise against labour reform
- In brief: Argentina to hold another debt auction