LatinNews Daily - 18 July 2024

On 17 July US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity (Apep) foreign affairs track ministerial meeting, and met the foreign ministers of Panama (Javier Martínez-Acha), Costa Rica (Arnoldo André), and Mexico (Alicia Bárcena).... Read More

On 17 July the Venezuelan opposition denounced the arrest of Milciades Ávila, the head of security for the leading opposition campaigner María Corina Machado.... Read More

*Colombian television news programme Noticias Caracol has reported that it has seen messages implicating Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla in a corruption scandal that hit the government’s disaster risk management unit (UNGRD) in May.... Read More

On 17 July federal deputy Alexandre Ramagem, who served as director of the Brazilian intelligence agency (Abin) from 2019-2022, was summoned to testify to the federal police (PF) in relation to an investigation into illegal surveillance activities.... Read More

*Neoenergia, a Brazilian subsidiary of Spanish energy company Iberdrola, has announced a joint venture with Carbon2Nature, a carbon credit trading firm which is headquartered in Spain and is also owned by Iberdrola.... Read More

*Honduras’ foreign minister, Eduardo Enrique Reina, has rejected the US State Department’s latest investment climate report on Honduras after it highlighted “significant uncertainty” felt by investors due to Honduran “government policies and legislation” which has left investors with limited opportunities.... Read More

On 17 July US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Mexican foreign minister Alicia Bárcena in Washington, thanking her for Mexico’s “great efforts” to reduce illegal immigration into the US. ... Read More

*The Spain-headquartered business group Duro Felguera has been contracted by Pemex Transformación Industrial, a subsidiary of Mexico’s state oil company Pemex, to build a fertiliser plant in Mexico’s Veracruz state, in collaboration with the Mexican branch of Portuguese construction firm Mota-Engil.... Read More

On 17 July Chile’s President Gabriel Boric held a meeting with Chile’s interior minister, Carolina Tohá, and deputy security minister Manuel Monsalve, to discuss new security measures.... Read More

*Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña and Chile’s President Gabriel Boric have committed to advancing the Bioceanic Corridor infrastructure project during a visit by Boric to Paraguay’s capital, Asunción.... Read More