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LatinNews Daily - 01 September 2025
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On 31 August Ecuador’s military launched an intervention in the notorious prison Penitenciaría del Litoral in Guayaquil, days after authorities tightened security measures at the city’s major port in an effort to check the power of organised crime.... Read More
Andean
*Peru’s ministerial cabinet has signed off on the government’s budget proposal for 2026, which will now be debated by congress.... Read More
Brazil
On 29 August Brazil’s government led by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva submitted the 2026 budget legislation (PLOA) to congress, which projects an annual primary deficit of R$23.3bn (US$4.3bn) for 2026.... Read More
*Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released its latest fiscal statistics, showing that the public sector registered a primary deficit of R$66.6bn (US$12.2bn) in July.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 29 August Ireland’s foreign ministry confirmed the release of Gena Heraty, an Irish missionary active in Haiti since 1993, and all Haitian nationals who had been kidnapped by armed gangs on 3 August from the Saint-Hélène orphanage, in Haiti’s Kenscoff commune, Port-au-Prince arrondissement.... Read More
*Panama’s government led by President José Raúl Mulino and Chiquita Panamá, the local subsidiary of multinational banana company Chiquita Brands International, have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) whereby the banana company will restart operations in Panama’s Bocas del Toro province.... Read More
Mexico
On 29 and 30 August the state public security ministry (SSP) for Mexico’s Sinaloa state reported that there had been three separate attacks on hospitals in Culiacán, the state capital.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 31 August Juan Pablo Valdés won the elections for governor of Argentina’s north-eastern province of Corrientes for the centrist Unión Cívica Radical (UCR), emphatically defeating an attempt by President Javier Milei’s far-right La Libertad Avanza (LLA) to dislodge the party from power.... Read More
*Chile’s national statistics institute (INE) has released new figures showing that the unemployment rate in the May-July rolling quarter was 8.7% – unchanging on the same period in 2024, and down 0.2 percentage points on the immediately preceding April-June rolling quarter.... Read More
Washington Watch
Venezuela: On 28 August Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), Samuel Moncada, met with UN Secretary General António Guterres and urged him to issue a statement calling for an end to the US naval deployment to the waters off Venezuela.... Read More
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- ECUADOR: Security tightened in Guayaquil
- In brief: Peru’s government unveils 2026 budget proposal
- BRAZIL: Government submits 2026 budget initiative
- In brief: Brazil’s primary deficit widens in July
- HAITI: Irish missionary and Haitian nationals freed by kidnappers
- In brief: Banana company Chiquita to restart operations in Panama
- MEXICO: Violence in Culiacán as hospitals attacked
- In brief: Mexico’s Banxico revises up 2025 growth forecast
- ARGENTINA: Milei suffers electoral setback
- In brief: Chile’s unemployment unchanging year-on-year
- Venezuela appeals to UN over US warships