LatinNews Daily - 18 September 2025

On 17 September Argentina’s central bank (BCRA) intervened to prop up the peso, as the lower chamber rejected more of President Javier Milei’s vetoes and anti-government protesters took to the streets, reflecting the mounting challenges facing the Milei administration ahead of October’s mid-term elections.... Read More

On 17 September there were mixed reactions to the sentences for kidnappings that were issued the previous day by Colombia’s transitional justice tribunal (JEP) to former top commanders of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group.... Read More

*Peru’s congress has almost unanimously approved another early withdrawal from private pension funds (AFPs), in what the media is widely reporting is the eighth such move since 2020 when affiliates were first authorised to make partial withdrawals from AFPs to assist with hardship caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More

On 17 September the lower chamber of Brazil’s congress approved a motion to fast-track the review of a bill (PL 2162/2023) that proposes pardoning the far-right rioters who ransacked the seats of government in Brasília on 8 January 2023.... Read More

*The monetary policy committee (Copom) of Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has held the country’s benchmark interest rate (Selic) at 15.0% for the second time.... Read More

On 17 September Commonwealth Secretary-General Shirley Botchwey, said that she was “deeply disturbed by recent reports that the Guatemalan Army hoisted their flag on Belizean territory, attempted to intercept a Belizean military vessel, and obstructed Belizeans from using the Sarstoon River”.... Read More

*Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has put the cost of the US embargo and sanctions on Cuba from March 2024 to February 2025 at over US$7.56bn, up 49% on the same period the previous year.... Read More

On 17 September Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, the son of Mexico’s former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), rejected media reports that he and his brother had taken legal action to protect themselves against any possible arrest warrants against them.... Read More

*Mexico’s finance ministry (SHCP) has confirmed recent bond issuances to support the indebted state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex).... Read More

*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has reported that the country’s GDP in the second quarter of 2025 contracted by 0.1% on the previous quarter and grew by 6.3% on the same quarter last year.... Read More