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LatinNews Daily - 29 June 2021
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On 28 June, three Brazilian senators filed a criminal notice with the country’s supreme court (STF), asking that it order the launch of a criminal investigation into President Jair Bolsonaro for supposed dereliction of duty. ... Read More
Andean
On 28 June Keiko Fujimori, the candidate for the right-wing Fuerza Popular party in Peru's disputed 6 June round run-off presidential election, called on President Francisco Sagasti to request an international audit of the results.... Read More
* The executive board of Colombia’s central bank (Banrep) has increased its growth forecast for Colombia this year from 6% to 6.5%, on account of better-than-expected growth of 1.1% in the first four months of the year, compared to the same period in 2020.... Read More
Brazil
* US financial services firm, JPMorgan Chase, has bought a 40% stake in Brazilian digital bank, C6 Bank, giving it access to the Brazilian retail banking market, one of the largest in the world, for the first time.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 28 June dozens of people protested in Honduras’s capital Tegucigalpa against so-called employment and economic development zones (Zedes).... Read More
* International credit ratings agency, Fitch Ratings, has warned that El Salvador’s recent legislation establishing the cryptocurrency bitcoin as a legal tender would “increase financial institutions’ regulatory, financial and operational risks, including the potential of violating international anti-money laundering (AML) and terrorist financing standards”.... Read More
Mexico
On 28 June Mexico’s supreme court (SCJN) ruled that banning the recreational use of marihuana is unconstitutional.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released trade figures which show total exports in May 2021 were US$40.80bn, up 125.2% on the same month in 2020, while total imports were US$40.46bn in May, up 87.5% on the same month in 2020.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 28 June new rules came into effect limiting the number of passengers permitted to enter Argentina on international flights every 24 hours to just 600.... Read More
*Argentine oil and gas company, Vista, and the Swiss trading company, Trafigura, have announced the signing of a joint investment agreement for the development of 20 oil wells in the Bajada del Palo Oeste block in Argentina’s ‘Vaca Muerta’ shale oil and gas fields in Patagonia.... Read More
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- BRAZIL: Senators go to STF over Covaxin scandal
- PERU: Fujimori requests international election audit
- In brief: Colombia raises growth forecast
- In brief: JPMorgan Chase enters Brazil’s retail banking market
- HONDURAS: Protests against Zedes
- In brief: Fitch warns on bitcoin in El Salvador
- MEXICO: SCJN fully decriminalises marihuana
- In brief: Mexico registers trade surplus in May
- ARGENTINA: New flight restrictions fuel criticism
- In brief: Major investment in Argentina’s ‘Vaca Muerta’