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LatinNews Daily - 25 March 2020

Main Briefing
On 24 March public transport drivers staged protests in Honduras’ capital, Tegucigalpa, in demand of food and money to cover basic expenses.... Read More
Andean
On 24 March, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, called for a suspension of international economic sanctions on Venezuela, to enable its struggling healthcare system to fight the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
* Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno has confirmed that his government has secured a US$2.5bn emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in order to tackle the country’s health emergency caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Brazil
On 24 March, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro gave a nationally televised address in which he once again downplayed the health risks of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, and accused the media and the country’s state governors of stoking panic.... Read More
* Brazil’s Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) university and think-tank has released its latest consumer confidence index (ICC), which shows that consumer confidence in March 2020 reached its lowest point since January 2017.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* Costa Rica’s 57-member unicameral national legislature has approved a US$500m loan from the Latin American Development Bank (CAF).... Read More
Mexico
On 24 March, some 70 people ransacked a supermarket in the municipality of Tecámac in the central state of Estado de México (Edomex), adding to growing reports that criminals are looking to capitalise on the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in Mexico.... Read More
*The president of the Mexican restaurant association Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Restaurantes y Alimentos Condimentados (Canirac), Francisco Fernández, has warned that 2,000 restaurants and 80,000 workers are currently not working as a result of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, impacting an industry which employs 2m people.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 24 March local authorities reported that five inmates had been killed in two separate prisons in Argentina’s Santa Fe province during violent riots over the adoption of preventative measures to stop the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19).... Read More
* The head of Paraguay’s state-owned electricity firm (Ande), Luis Alberto Villordo, has warned that the firm could be rendered “insolvent” if proposals to temporarily suspend electricity tariffs to provide economic relief to consumers amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic are approved.... Read More

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