LatinNews Daily - 07 October 2019

On 4 October a group of Haitian opposition figures delivered a letter to the Special Representative of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General in Haiti, addressed to UN Secretary General António Guterres, calling on the international community to drop its support for President Jovenel Moïse.... Read More

On 5 October Ecuador’s largest indigenous organisation Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de Ecuador (Conaie) declared its own ‘state of exception’ and a permanent national mobilisation against the government led by President Lenín Moreno.... Read More

* Colombia’s national statistics institute (Dane) has released new figures which show the country’s inflation rate was 3.82% in September 2019, year-on-year.... Read More

On 6 October, Brazilian daily Folha de São Paulo reported that Tourism Minister Marcelo Álvaro Antônio and President Jair Bolsonaro, both from the ruling Partido Social Liberal (PSL), might have benefited from illegal campaign financing (‘caixa 2’) during last year’s election.   ... Read More

* The state government of Piauí, in the northeast of Brazil, has announced that Spanish company Enerside will begin the construction of a solar park in the municipality of Ribeiro Gonçalves in early 2020.... Read More

* Russia’s Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev attended the first drilling of a horizontal oil well located in the Boca de Jaruco oil field in northern Cuba which is being developed by Cuban and Russian state-run companies Cubapetróleo (Cupet) and Zarubezhneft, respectively.... Read More

On 6 October, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard confirmed that two Mexican nationals were amongst four individuals who were fatally shot during an incident that day in Kansas City in the US.... Read More

* According to the latest figures from Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi), exports of light vehicles totalled 284,243 in September 2019, a 7.11% drop on the same month the previous year.... Read More

On 5 October Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri called for his supporters to mobilise to achieve record levels of participation in the 27 October first-round general election to give him a chance of re-election.... Read More

* Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released new figures which show that national inflation in September 2019 reached 7.78% year-on-year while the monthly rate was 0.52%.... Read More

Argentina: On 1 October the US embassy in Argentina released a statement outlining the recent visit by the US ambassador to Argentina, Edward Prado, to the country’s northern provinces of Nequén and Río Negro to meet representatives from Vista Oil & Gas Argentina SAU and Aleph Midstream SA.... Read More