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LatinNews Daily - 26 April 2024
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Haiti’s transitional presidential council was installed in the national palace in Port-au-Prince on 25 April after the prime minister, Ariel Henry, resigned with immediate effect.... Read More
ANDEAN
On 25 April the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Ecuadorean authorities reached a staff-level agreement for the country to receive a four-year, US$4bn extended fund facility (EFF).... Read More
*Bolivia’s Foreign Minister Celinda Sosa has travelled to Moscow for two days of talks aimed at bolstering bilateral ties with Russia.... Read More
BRAZIL
On 25 April Brazilian supreme court (STF) justice Cristiano Zanin issued a monocratic, or individual, preliminary ruling which suspended a law approved by congress last year that extended tax breaks on payrolls for 17 sectors.... Read More
*The Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras has confirmed that it would pay R$21.95bn (US$4.25bn) in extraordinary dividends to its shareholders.... Read More
CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
*Nicaragua’s central bank (BCN) has released new figures for its monthly index of economic activity (IMAE), registering 5.6% year-on-year growth in February 2024.... Read More
MEXICO
On 25 April Mexico’s senate approved a reform to create a new pension fund as part of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s wider reform of the pension system.... Read More
*The presidential candidate for Mexico’s ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), Claudia Sheinbaum, has pledged to lift 7.5m people out of extreme poverty if she wins the country’s elections on 2 June.... Read More
SOUTHERN CONE
On 25 April Argentina’s security minister, Patricia Bullrich, admitted to the presence of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on its northern border and likened the Venezuelan criminal organisation Tren de Aragua to a terrorist group. ... Read More
*Argentina’s Economy Minister Luis Caputo has held a meeting with leaders of energy companies to discuss the settling of the debt that Cammesa, the state-owned wholesale electricity company, has accumulated with them.... Read More
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- HAITI: Henry definitively resigns as council installed
- ECUADOR: IMF throws Noboa a lifeline
- In brief: Bolivia’s foreign minister seeks deeper ties in Moscow visit
- BRAZIL: Top court challenges congress over payroll taxes
- In brief: Brazil’s Petrobras to pay half of withheld dividends
- In brief: Nicaragua’s economic activity picks up
- MEXICO: Senate greenlights new pension fund
- In brief: Mexico’s Sheinbaum pledges to lift millions out of poverty
- ARGENTINA: Bullrich tries patch up but may fuel tensions
- In brief: Argentina’s gov’t seeks debt settlement with energy companies