LatinNews Daily - 09 September 2020

On 8 September, Chile’s deputy interior minister, Juan Francisco Galli, confirmed the death of a 21-year-old man in the municipality of Cañete, in Chile’s southern Bío Bío Region, believed to have been shot by indigenous Mapuche activists.... Read More

On 8 September, Ecuador’s legislative administrative council (CAL) admitted a request to begin impeachment proceedings against Interior Minister María Paula Romo, over her role in the suppression of anti-government protests in October 2019.... Read More

* Bolivia’s economy minister, Óscar Ortiz, has reported that between January and June, the country ran a fiscal deficit of B$20bn (US$2.9bn), equal to the total deficit initially forecast for the whole of 2020.... Read More

On 8 September Brazil’s Eduardo Paes, a former mayor of Rio de Janeiro (2009-2017) was charged with corruption by the Rio state public prosecutor’s office (MPRJ), in a development that could upend the city’s municipal elections in November.... Read More

* International ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service has updated its analysis on Brazil, noting that “economic contraction appears to have bottomed out”, and that the recession resulting from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and related economic crisis “will be less severe than investors anticipated”.... Read More

On 8 September Guyana’s home affairs minister, Robeson Benn, announced the deployment of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to the West Coast Berbice area (WCB) in Region Five, to support the national police (GPF) in ensuring the “return of law and order”.... Read More

* The central bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD) has released new figures which show that a total of 1.6m tourists (foreign nationals and non-resident Dominicans) visited the country via air travel in the first eight months of 2020, a 64.8% drop on the same period in 2019.... Read More

On 8 September Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the occupation of the offices of the national human rights commission (CNDH) in Mexico City by feminist groups in protest at its failure to uphold human rights is “exaggerated” and has political undertones.... Read More

* Mexico’s finance minister, Arturo Herrera, has presented the federal congress with the government’s draft budget for 2021.... Read More

* Chile’s central bank (BCCh) has published national accounts for August, which indicate a trade surplus of US$904m.... Read More