LatinNews Daily - 06 May 2026

On 5 May Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo named Gabriel Estuardo García Luna, a former judge and professor serving as an adviser to the procurator general’s office (PGN), as Guatemala’s new attorney general (AG).... Read More

On 5 May the US loosened its sanctions on Venezuela to facilitate a potential debt restructuring.... Read More

*Bolivia’s public works, services, and housing minister, Mauricio Zamora, has called on protesting transport workers to lift their roadblocks ahead of a meeting today (6 May) between President Rodrigo Paz’s government and the Confederación Sindical de Choferes de Bolivia (CSCB) drivers’ union.... Read More

On 5 May a school shooting took place in Brazil’s northern state of Acre, in which two members of staff were killed, causing the state government to order a three-day suspension of classes in all state schools.... Read More

*The monetary policy committee (Copom) of Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released the minutes from its meeting on 28-29 April in which it lowered the country’s benchmark interest rate (Selic) to 14.50%.... Read More

*Panama’s trade and industry minister, Julio Moltó, has hailed the “significant recovery” of the banana sector in the banana-producing province Bocas del Toro following a major strike by banana workers which began in April 2025 amid more general protests over new reforms to the social security system, among other things.... Read More

On 5 May Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum hit back at comments made by the conservative leader of Spain’s Madrid region, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who is currently visiting Mexico.... Read More

*Mexico’s transport (SICT) and foreign (SRE) ministries have announced that an agreement has been reached following dialogue with the US Department of Transportation (DoT) to implement measures in relation to bilateral air transport.... Read More

On 5 May environmental organisations presented a new request for collective legal protection against the reform of Argentina’s glacier protection law.... Read More

*Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released the official inflation figures for April, putting monthly inflation at 0.54% and annual inflation at 3.16%.... Read More