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LatinNews Daily - 22 August 2019
Main Briefing
On 21 August, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro accused NGOs of responsibility for the record number of fires currently burning in the Brazilian Amazon in order to make him look bad and to draw attention to the cuts in their funding.... Read More
Andean
On 21 August, Colombia’s President Iván Duque warned that drug-traffickers were seeking to impose their candidates in regional and municipal elections on 27 October.... Read More
* Bolivia’s state-owned mining firm Yacimientos de Litio Boliviano (YLB) and the Chinese private consortium TBEA Group-Baocheng have signed a joint venture to build a lithium carbonate facility, as part of the on-going industrialisation of the salt flats at Pastos Grandes and Coipasa, in the departments of Potosí and Oruro, respectively.... Read More
Brazil
* Brazil’s government chief-of-staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, and Infrastructure Minister Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas have announced the launching of studies on either the partial or complete privatisation of nine state companies.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 21 August, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega named Rosa Adelina Barahona Castro, a national legislator for the ruling Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), as his new defence minister.... Read More
* El Salvador’s central bank (BCR) has released new figures which show the country’s exports in the first seven months of the year totalled US$3.59bn, up 0.9% on the same period in 2018.... Read More
Mexico
On 21 August, two local NGOs, Pueblo Sin Fronteras (PSF) and Centro de Dignificación Humana en Tapachula, denounced immigration raids by Mexican security forces and repression against migrants in the municipality of Tapachula, in the south-eastern state of Chiapas.... Read More
* Mexico’s economy ministry and the US Department of Commerce have announced a new agreement to suspend the antidumping (AD) investigation of fresh tomatoes from Mexico.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 21 August, a group of Argentine provincial governors called for the federal government led by President Mauricio Macri to ensure that their budgets are not affected by emergency economic measures.... Read More
* Paraguay’s central bank (BCP) has cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.25%.... Read More
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- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro blames NGOs as Amazon sees record fires
- COLOMBIA: Duque denounces drug money in elections
- In brief: Bolivia in new joint-venture with Chinese mining company
- In brief: Brazil’s gov’t moots privatising more state companies
- NICARAGUA: Ortega names new defence minister
- In brief: El Salvador’s exports up 0.9% in first seven months of 2019
- MEXICO: Migrant NGOs denounce raids and repression
- In brief: Mexico hails tomato deal with US
- ARGENTINA: Governors criticise palliative economic measures
- In brief: Paraguay’s central bank cuts interest rates