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LatinNews Daily - 07 September 2023
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On 6 September Claudia Sheinbaum won the internal contest to become the 2024 presidential candidate for Mexico’s ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena).... Read More
ANDEAN
On 6 September Peru’s President Dina Boluarte carried out a cabinet reshuffle, replacing six ministers including Justice Minister Daniel Maurate.... Read More
* Peru’s Prime Minister Alberto Otárola and Finance Minister Alex Contreras have submitted the draft 2024 national budget to congress, outlining proposed spending of PEN241bn (US$65.04bn) – a 12% increase on the 2023 budget, which Otárola said marked the largest annual increase of the past decade.... Read More
BRAZIL
On 6 September Brazil’s government led by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva confirmed the addition of two new cabinet ministers, André Fufuca (Progressistas, PP) and Silvio Costa Filho (Republicanos).... Read More
* The Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab), the logistics arm of Brazil’s agriculture ministry, has released the latest figures for grain crop production, which showed that the 2022/23 harvest cycle registered a record 322.8m tonnes (t).... Read More
CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
On 6 September a debate took place in Omar Torrijos Herrera district in Panama’s Colón province involving a national congress committee and the public over a new contract between the government and Minera Panamá S.A.... Read More
* Guatemala has joined the free trade agreement (FTA) that South Korea signed with five other Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) in 2018.... Read More
MEXICO
* Mexico’s national tax authority (SAT) has issued a new report with preliminary figures on tax take between January and August 2023.... Read More
SOUTHERN CONE
On 6 September Chile’s former president Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014, 2018-2022), of the conservative opposition Chile Vamos, said he would sign a declaration in support of democracy proposed by President Gabriel Boric ahead of the 50th anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) but would not take part in official events to commemorate it.... Read More
* Chile’s central bank (BCCh) has revised down its annual GDP growth forecast for 2023 from between -0.5% and 0.25% in its previous (June) forecast to between -0.5% and 0%.... Read More
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- MEXICO: Sheinbaum takes Morena’s presidential ticket
- PERU: Six ministers replaced in cabinet reshuffle
- In brief: Peru’s gov’t submits 2024 budget proposal to congress
- BRAZIL: Conservative parties gain cabinet seats
- In brief: Brazil registers record grain production for 2022/23
- PANAMA: Debates continue over new mining contract amid protests
- In brief: Guatemala joins South Korea-Central America FTA
- In brief: Mexico hails increased tax take
- CHILE: Polarisation grows over coup anniversary
- In brief: Chile’s central bank lowers GDP growth forecast