LatinNews Daily - 05 February 2020

On 4 February the provincial government of Buenos Aires in Argentina announced that it would meet a US$250m bond payment in full in order to avoid being declared in default.... Read More

On 4 January, a delegation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) was prevented from boarding a flight to Venezuela, on the orders of de facto president Nicolás Maduro’s government.... Read More

* Venezuela’s central bank (BCV) has announced an annual inflation figure of 9,585.5% for 2019.... Read More

On 4 February, a judge from Brazil’s supreme labour court (TST), Ives Gandra Martins, ruled that 90% of Petrobras workers must maintain their normal duties, as a countrywide strike of the state-owned oil company’s employees entered its fourth day.... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the latest data for industrial production, which shows that Brazil’s industrial output fell by 0.7% in December 2019 compared with the previous month and by 1.2% year-on-year.... Read More

On 4 February Guatemala’s President Alejandro Giammattei named Oscar Dávila, a former deputy interior minister, as the head of the new presidential anti-corruption commission.... Read More

* Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley has announced that the government and its Venezuelan counterpart have rescinded an agreement to exploit and develop hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Loran-Manatee Field that extends across the delimitation line between the two countries.... Read More

On 4 February the Mexican government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that five of the country’s 32 states had refused to sign up to either its new public healthcare programme, the Instituto de Salud para el Bienestar (Insabi) or IMSS-Bienestar, a programme from Mexico’s social security institute (IMSS).... Read More

* Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) has released new figures which show remittances to the country totalled US$36.48bn in 2019, up 7.04% on 2018.... Read More

* Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera has highlighted the measures that his government is taking to respond to the water scarcity currently affecting 136 municipalities across five of the country’s regions.... Read More