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LatinNews Daily - 16 September 2024
MAIN BRIEFING
On 15 September Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello announced the arrest of six foreign nationals from the US, Spain, and the Czech Republic who he claimed were plotting to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro.... Read More
ANDEAN
*Peru’s government has announced emergency measures to rescue the crisis-ridden state oil company, Petroperú, authorising additional funding for the company and ordering it to work with a private partner as part of a restructuring process.... Read More
BRAZIL
On 15 September Brazilian supreme court (STF) justice Flávio Dino authorised the release of emergency funds to address outbreaks of forest fires, which would not be subject to fiscal discipline rules.... Read More
*The economic policy secretariat (SPE) of Brazil’s finance ministry has released the September edition of its bi-monthly Boletim MacroFiscal report containing the secretariat’s economic projections, which showed an annual GDP growth forecast of 3.2%.... Read More
CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
On 14 September President Xiomara Castro said that she would not allow “another coup d’état” in Honduras while addressing thousands of supporters of her ruling left-wing Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) and public sector officials gathered outside the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa.... Read More
*Cabinet ministers from Costa Rica and Panama have held a meeting to deepen bilateral trade and security cooperation.... Read More
MEXICO
In the week ending 15 September a total of 33 people were killed in the state of Sinaloa, in what is widely considered to be a battle between rival factions of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organisation (DTO), one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal organisations.... Read More
*Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promulgated the judicial reform bill which cleared congress on 11 September.... Read More
SOUTHERN CONE
On 15 September Argentina’s President Javier Milei presented the outlines of his 2025 budget proposal during a speech to congress, insisting on his commitment to fiscal balance.... Read More
*Workers from Argentina’s state airline Aerolíneas Argentinas demanding better pay have launched another strike, indicative of rising tensions between airline staff unions and the government led by President Javier Milei, which earlier this month announced mass layoffs and unsuccessfully pushed for the airline to be privatised earlier this year.... Read More
WASHINGTON WATCH
Dominican Republic: On 6 September US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, to meet with President Luis Abinader.... Read More
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- VENEZUELA: Six foreigners arrested over alleged coup plot
- In brief: Peru’s gov’t acts on Petroperú crisis
- BRAZIL: Judiciary approves emergency funds to combat fires
- In brief: Brazil’s government raises growth forecast
- HONDURAS: Castro rallies supporters after narcovideo
- In brief: Costa Rica and Panama strengthen bilateral ties
- MEXICO: Violence spreads in Culiacán
- In brief: Mexico’s López Obrador promulgates judicial reform bill
- ARGENTINA: Milei outlines “zero deficit” budget
- In brief: Argentine state airline workers launch strike
- Blinken pays a visit to the Dominican Republic