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LatinNews Daily - 16 January 2024
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On 15 January Vatican News, the news portal of the Holy See, confirmed that Nicaraguan Bishops Rolando Álvarez and Isidoro Mora and 17 other clerics had arrived in Rome after being released from prison and expelled by Nicaragua’s government led by President Daniel Ortega the previous day.... Read More
Andean
On 15 January negotiators from the Colombian government and the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) alliance of dissident units of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group expressed optimism at the progress of peace talks following the extension of a bilateral ceasefire for a further six months.... Read More
*Peru’s national statistics institute (Inei) has released figures showing that the country’s economic output increased by 0.29% in November 2023 compared with the same month the previous year.... Read More
Brazil
On 15 January Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promulgated a law (14.811/2024) which defined bullying and cyberbullying as a crime and updated existing laws regarding the punishments for child abuse.... Read More
*Brazil’s national council of coffee exporters (Cecafé) has released the annual figures for coffee exports in 2023, registering 39.25m sacks of coffee (one sack = 60kg).... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
*Honduras’ central bank (BCH) has released new figures which show the country’s exports in the first 11 months of 2023 totalled US$10.59bn, down 7.6% on the same period in 2022.... Read More
Mexico
On 15 January protests took place outside the national palace in Mexico City (CDMX) over the killing of trans activist Samantha Fonseca.... Read More
*Mexico’s national tax authority (SAT) has released figures showing that tax take totalled M$4.5trn in 2023, an increase of 12.3% in real terms as compared to 2022.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 15 January Chile’s labour minister, Jeannette Jara, announced that the government had struck an accord with non-aligned centrist opposition parties that could break the longstanding deadlock over its proposed pension reform.... Read More
*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released its latest figures on the cost of a basic food basket, which was up 30.1% in December 2023 as compared to the previous month and has increased 258.2% year-on-year.... Read More
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- NICARAGUA: Jailed prominent bishop and other clerics freed, expelled
- COLOMBIA: Optimism as EMC ceasefire extended
- In brief: Peru’s economic output up year-on-year
- BRAZIL: Lula sanctions law on cyberbullying and online crimes
- In brief: Slight drop in Brazil’s annual coffee exports
- In brief: Honduras’ trade drops
- MEXICO: Protest over killing of trans activist
- In brief: Mexico’s tax take up in 2023
- CHILE: Government deal may herald pension breakthrough
- In brief: Cost of basic basket rises faster than inflation in Argentina