LatinNews Daily - 02 August 2019

On 1 August, the Venezuelan armed forces (FANB) accused the US of an unauthorised encroachment on its airspace, and stated that the country was trying to create an incident as a means of forcing military involvement in Venezuela.... Read More

* Ecuador’s state-owned oil company Petroecuador has announced the completion of scheduled maintenance at the Esmeraldas refinery, the largest of Ecuador’s three refineries located in the northwest of the country.... Read More

On 1 August, following a press conference on deforestation, Brazilian environmental NGO Observatório do Clima criticised the government led by President Jair Bolsonaro for presenting “a lie, a deception, and a false solution to the problem”.... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released figures which show that industrial production fell by 0.6% in June, the second consecutive negative monthly result after a 0.1% decrease in May.... Read More

On 1 August, Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, the apostolic nuncio, revealed that the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega had ended the dialogue process with the opposition movement Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia (ACJD).... Read More

* Costa Rica’s national statistics institute (Inec) has released its latest unemployment report, which shows that the unemployment rate for the second quarter of 2019 reached 11.9%, up by 3.3 percentage points on the same period last year.... Read More

On 1 August, international human rights NGO Amnesty International (AI) said that the Mexican authorities have serious questions to answer over the killing of a Central American migrant in Coahuila state.... Read More

* Mexico’s finance ministry has adjusted its 2019 GDP growth forecast following second quarter (Q2) results.... Read More

On 1 August, Paraguayan and Brazilian authorities signed the annulment of a bilateral agreement on the distribution of surplus energy from the bi-national Itaipú hydroelectric dam, the terms of which have sparked a political crisis for Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez.... Read More

* The Argentine government has launched a public tender to design and build the fourth gas pipeline for Vaca Muerta, a hydrocarbons deposit in Patagonia.... Read More