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LatinNews Daily - 08 September 2020

Main Briefing
On 7 September, 37 Venezuelan opposition parties signed a ‘unity pact’ pledging once again to boycott the legislative elections in December, and instead committing to the formation of an “emergency government” to replace the de facto government led by Nicolás Maduro.... Read More
Andean
* Peru’s tax agency (Sunat) has announced that tax revenues decreased by 13.1% year-on-year in August, as the PEN7.1bn (US$2bn) collected was PEN928m less than the figure for August 2019.... Read More
Brazil
On 7 September, Brazil’s independence day, former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) gave a speech broadcast online, in which he delivered a blistering critique of the current government led by President Jair Bolsonaro. ... Read More
* The Instituto Brasileiro de Economia (Ibre) at Brazil’s Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) university has released its latest figures on inflation for low-income families, which show that this measure (the IPC-C1) reached 0.55% in August, up from 0.50% in July.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 7 September thousands of taxi and public bus drivers blockaded roads in Honduras’s capital, Tegucigalpa, and in other parts of the country.... Read More
* The Nicaraguan government and Taiwan's ambassador to Nicaragua, Jaime Chin-Mu Wu, have announced the signing of an agreement worth US$1.46m to support the food programme Bono Productivo Alimentario (BPA).... Read More
Mexico
On 7 September the governors of ten Mexican states representing parties opposed to the federal government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador withdrew from the national confederation of governors (Conago).... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released June figures on gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), which reveal that state investment in fixed capital goods such as machinery and equipment grew by 20.1% compared with May.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 7 September residents of a gated community in the city of Pilar, Buenos Aires province, staged a demonstration that prevented officials from Argentina’s national penitentiary service from taking Lázaro Báez to where he has been allowed to remain under house arrest. ... Read More
* International credit ratings agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has lifted Argentina’s long-term sovereign credit rating out of ‘SD’ (selective default) status, following confirmation that the country has successfully restructured sovereign debt issued under local and international law, totalling some US$107.7bn.... Read More

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