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LatinNews Daily - 07 July 2020

Main Briefing
On 6 July the international press freedom watchdog Inter American Press Association (IAPA) called for new legislation in Panama to support freedom of the press and the free exercise of journalism.... Read More
Andean
On 6 July, Bolivia’s attorney general’s office formally accused former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) of terrorism, and requested that he be put in preventative detention.... Read More
* Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno has announced that the government has reached a new agreement with an important group of bondholders, to renegotiate the terms of the country’s debt.... Read More
Brazil
On 6 July, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed sections of a bill making the use of face coverings obligatory in public spaces in Brazil in order to limit the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19), removing the obligation to wear face masks inside of prisons.... Read More
* Brazil’s national association of vehicle manufacturers (Anfavea) has warned that lockdown measures taken to contain the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic caused Brazilian vehicle production to plummet in the first half of 2020.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* According to Guatemalan exporters’ association (Agexport), which represents local entrepreneurs that participate and compete in world markets, local tourism in Guatemala will not return until the third or fourth quarter of 2020, and foreign tourism will not restart until 2021.... Read More
Mexico
On 6 July Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador held a phone conversation with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who confirmed that he will not be attending a meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington DC later this week to celebrate the launch of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on regional trade at the turn of the month.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics agency (Inegi) has released monthly figures for April of gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), that is to say investment, in machinery and equipment, which indicate a 37.1% fall compared with the same month last year.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 6 July Chile’s health minister, Enrique Paris, recognised that the official number of deaths due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country is significantly lower than the true figure and must be adjusted.... Read More
* Chile’s national mining society (Sonami) has published figures on employment in the mining sector between March and May, which reveal that employment fell by 15% compared with the same period in 2019, from 236,500 people to 201,000.... Read More

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