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LatinNews Daily - 15 December 2025
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On 14 December Chile’s far-right presidential candidate, José Antonio Kast, won the second-round elections at a canter against Jeannette Jara of the ruling left-of-centre coalition.... Read More
Andean
On 12 December Ecuador’s government announced the arrest of Antonio Quintero Molina, alias ‘Caleño’, an alleged leading member of the Colombian drug trafficking organisation Clan del Golfo.... Read More
*Peru’s central bank (BCRP) has announced that the country registered a trade surplus of US$4.23bn in October 2025, up from US$1.72bn in the same month in 2024 and US$1.22bn in October 2023.... Read More
Brazil
On 12 December Brazil’s government welcomed the US decision earlier that day to remove the sanctions imposed on supreme court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes.... Read More
*Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its figures for the country’s services sector in October, showing a 0.3% monthly rise in the volume of services provided.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 14 December Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo announced a 15-day ‘state of prevention’ in the indigenous municipalities of Nahualá and Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, Sololá department.... Read More
*The Dominican Republic’s central bank (BCRD) has released new figures showing that remittances to the country totalled US$10.78bn in the first 11 months of the year, up 10.5% on the same period in 2024.... Read More
Mexico
On 12 December the governments of Mexico and the US announced they had reached an agreement in relation to the 1944 water treaty, which US President Donald Trump has accused Mexico of violating.... Read More
*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has reported a 0.7% year-on-year drop in industrial activity in October 2025.... Read More
Southern Cone
*Paraguay’s central bank (BCP) has revised up its GDP growth forecast for this year to 6.0%, up from a previous forecast of 5.3% in October.... Read More
Washington Watch
Nicaragua: On 10 December the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) announced that it would impose phased-in tariffs on Nicaragua to address the government’s “acts, policies, and practices related to abuses of labor rights, abuses of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and dismantling of the rule of law”.... Read More
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- CHILE: Kast wins emphatic victory
- COLOMBIA: Leading Clan del Golfo member arrested in Ecuador
- In brief: Peru’s trade surplus up in October
- BRAZIL: US lifts sanctions targeting judge in Bolsonaro case
- In brief: Brazil’s services sector grows in October
- GUATEMALA: State of prevention decreed in two municipalities
- In brief: Remittances rise to Dominican Republic
- MEXICO: Agreement reached with US over water treaty
- In brief: Mexico sees monthly rise, annual drop in industrial production
- In brief: Paraguay’s central bank raises growth forecast
- US slaps new tariffs on Nicaragua