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LatinNews Daily - 09 April 2020
Main Briefing
On 8 April, the Ecuadorean government asked private bondholders to accept a deferral of interest repayments on the country’s debt until 15 August, as the health emergency continues to escalate.... Read More
Andean
* The United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO) have delivered a 90-tonne shipment of medical supplies to Venezuela to help tackle the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Brazil
On 8 April, Brazil recorded its first confirmed deaths from coronavirus (Covid-19) in favelas in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as well as the first confirmed case in a prison, in the state of Pará.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its latest data on the services sector, which registered a 1% contraction in volume of activity in February compared with January this year, the biggest monthly fall since July 2018.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 8 April Irfaan Ali, the presidential candidate for the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), slammed a proposal by Guyana’s chief electoral officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, that the recount from the 2 March general election would take 156 days.... Read More
* The US embassy in Honduras has announced that US$8.9m will be reassigned and made available through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the Honduran government led by President Juan Orlando Hernández to combat coronavirus (Covid-19).... Read More
Mexico
On 8 April Mexico’s foreign ministry (SRE) announced that a group of Cuban doctors had arrived in the country to help coordinate efforts to combat the coronavirus (Covid-19).... Read More
* Mexico’s social security institute (IMSS) has released data showing that, from 13 March to 6 April, Mexican firms fired 346,878 workers in the midst of the health crisis caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 8 April, Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez announced the extension until 19 April of the national quarantine declared to try to contain the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19).... Read More
* Paraguay’s foreign ministry has confirmed that the country’s public health body received a transfer of US$520,000 from the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) regional bloc, which will be used to strengthen Paraguay’s medical capacity to respond to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
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- ECUADOR: Appealing for debt relief to escape health crisis
- In brief: Humanitarian aid arrives in Venezuela
- BRAZIL: Covid-19 advances on vulnerable areas
- In brief: Brazil’s services sector sees monthly decrease in February
- GUYANA: Opposition slams vote recount timeframe set by chief electoral officer
- In brief: US makes funds available to Honduras to combat Covid-19
- MEXICO: Concerns over Cuban medical assistance
- In brief: Mexico’s IMSS discloses number of layoffs due to Covid-19
- PARAGUAY: Gov’t extends quarantine
- In brief: Paraguay given Mercosur funds to fight Covid-19
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