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LatinNews Daily - 15 January 2024
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On 14 January reformist anti-corruption outsider Bernardo Arévalo took office as Guatemala’s president for a four-year term.... Read More
Andean
On 13 January Ecuador’s prisons authority (SNAI) announced that all of the hostages who were taken captive during coordinated uprisings by inmates on 9 January have now been freed.... Read More
*Venezuela’s central bank (BCV) has released its latest consumer price index, which put monthly inflation in December at 2.4%, bringing total accumulated inflation in 2023 to 189.8%.... Read More
Brazil
On 12 January Brazil’s national space research institute (Inpe) released the 2023 deforestation figures for the country’s two largest biomes, the Amazon rainforest, where deforestation decreased year-on-year, and the Cerrado woodland-savannah, where deforestation is on the rise.... Read More
*Brazil’s sugar cane industry association (Unica) has released its production figures for the second half of December 2023, registering 235,760 tonnes (t) of sugar cane, which marks an increase of 35.6% compared to the second half of December 2022.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
*The latest figures from Nicaragua’s national institute of development information (Inide) show that the monthly inflation rate in December was 1.57%, bringing the annual rate to 5.60%.... Read More
Mexico
On 14 January a human rights organisation in Mexico called on the interior ministry (Segob) to protect candidates competing in this year’s bumper elections.... Read More
*Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has forecast that economic growth will reach 3.5% this year.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 14 January Argentina’s security minister, Patricia Bullrich, announced the arrest of Gonzalo Fabián Coña, reportedly the right-hand man of radical Mapuche leader Francisco Facundo Jones Huala who was extradited to Chile earlier this month.... Read More
*Paraguay’s central bank (BCP) has released new figures which show that the country’s exports in 2023 totalled US$17.31bn, up 24.8% on 2022.... Read More
Washington Watch
Guyana: From 8-9 January US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Western Hemisphere Affairs Daniel Erikson visited Guyana, where he met with President Irfaan Ali.... Read More
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- GUATEMALA: Arévalo takes office
- ECUADOR: Prison hostages released
- In brief: Venezuela’s year-end inflation lowest since 2015, says central bank
- BRAZIL: Deforestation drops in Amazon, rises in Cerrado
- In brief: Brazil’s sugar cane production up
- In brief: Nicaragua’s annual inflation edges down
- MEXICO: Concerns mount over electoral violence
- In brief: López Obrador forecasts strong 2024 growth
- ARGENTINA: Mapuche leader arrested
- In brief: Paraguay’s exports up in 2023
- US defence official visits Guyana amid Venezuela tensions