LatinNews Daily - 03 July 2020

On 2 July campaigns for the 5 July general election in the Dominican Republic (DR) closed.... Read More

On 2 July, Venezuela’s foreign minister, Jorge Arreaza, announced that the decision to expel European Union (EU) ambassador Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa had been reversed, following a “tense” but “productive” discussion with the EU high representative for foreign affairs, Josep Borrell.... Read More

* Ecuador’s national assembly has voted to reject an amended version of the ‘public finances law’ put forward by President Lenín Moreno.... Read More

On 2 July, Brazil’s federal health ministry presented the findings of a study carried out by the Universidade Federal de Pelotas (Ufpel), according to which the number of Brazilians to have contracted the coronavirus (Covid-19) could be six times higher than the official case count suggests.... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the latest figures on industrial production in the country, which show an improvement in May after the sector suffered its most significant fall on record in April.... Read More

* The Guatemalan government has announced its decision to leave the United Kingdom-based International Coffee Organization (ICO), the main intergovernmental organisation for coffee, as of the next harvest season (October 2020 to September 2021).... Read More

On 2 July Mexico’s federal judicial council (CJF), the judiciary’s oversight body, announced the launch of an investigation into the federal judge that ordered the release of suspected criminal, José Ángel ‘El Mochomo’ Casarrubias Salgado.... Read More

* Canadian vehicle maker Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) has announced that it will invest CA$185m (some US$136m) in a new manufacturing facility in the Mexican city of Juárez, Chihuahua state – the first investment announced since the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal took effect on 1 July.... Read More

On 2 July the president of the federal lower chamber of Argentina's congress, Sergio Massa, presented a bill to stiffen the penalties for crimes against rural property amid a surge in attacks on silo bags, used for bulk grain storage, in recent weeks.... Read More

* Argentina’s state-owned oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF) has announced that it is seeking to swap US$1bn in dollar-denominated bonds due in March 2021, for new instruments maturing in 2025 plus a cash payment.... Read More