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LatinNews Daily - 21 January 2020
Main Briefing
On 20 January US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo committed to increasing US support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s efforts to remove Nicolás Maduro from power.... Read More
Andean
* Peru’s Economy & Finance Minister María Antonieta Alva has said the government is forecasting that GDP will grow by 4% in 2020, after having faced “a complicated year” in 2019, largely due to global economic uncertainty.... Read More
Brazil
On 20 January, at least 26 prisoners escaped from the 'Francisco d’Oliveira Conde' prison in Rio Branco, the state capital of Acre in Brazil’s northern region.... Read More
* Brazil has become the fourth destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) Investment Trends Monitor.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 20 January Guatemala’s President Alejandro Giammattei announced that he was analysing the asylum cooperation agreement (ACA) signed with the US last year.... Read More
* Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado of the centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) has sanctioned a law passed on 16 January by the 57-member unicameral national legislature which modifies several criteria for a strike to be declared legal.... Read More
Mexico
On 20 January the national public security system (SNSP) reported that there were 34,582 intentional homicides in Mexico in 2019.... Read More
* Mexico’s economy minister, Graciela Márquez, is leading the country’s delegation at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual summit in Davos, Switzerland, which began on 20 January and will not be attended by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, or Finance Minister Arturo Herrera.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 20 January Paraguay’s secretary general of the presidency, Juan Ernesto Villamayor, admitted that the escape of 75 inmates from a prison in Pedro Juan Caballero, Amambay department, was the result of corruption and failings in the country’s intelligence apparatus.... Read More
* Argentina’s economy ministry has announced that it has succeeded in exchanging Ar$99.6bn (US$1.6bn) worth of peso-denominated treasury bonds (Lecaps) as part of the bond swap offer opened on 20 January.... Read More
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- VENEZUELA: US pledges increased support for Guaidó
- In brief: Peru’s gov’t issues 2020 forecast
- BRAZIL: Prison break in Acre puts state on high alert
- In brief: Foreign investments to Brazil grow 26% in 2019
- GUATEMALA: Giammattei to review migration accord
- In brief: Costa Rica’s Alvarado sanctions law limiting the right to strike
- MEXICO: Homicides hit record high
- In brief: Economy minister to head Mexico’s Davos delegation
- PARAGUAY: Gov’t admits to failings in mass prison break
- In brief: Argentina pulls off positive bond swap operation