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LatinNews Daily - 14 September 2020

Main Briefing
On 11 September Peru’s congress voted decisively in favour of initiating impeachment proceedings against President Martín Vizcarra for ‘moral incapacity’.... Read More
Andean
* Venezuela’s civil aviation institute (Inac) has announced that it will extend air travel restrictions until 12 October.... Read More
Brazil
On 12 September, Brazil’s Regional Development Minister, Rogério Marinho, announced that the federal government had offered help to the state governors of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul to combat the fires currently ravaging the Pantanal.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the latest figures for the services sector, which is recovering slowly from a 19.8% drop in February-May this year, primarily due to the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 13 September the opposition grouping Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia (ACJD) declared a “national political alert” in Nicaragua, warning of an escalation of repression by the government led by President Daniel Ortega.... Read More
* Costa Rica’s foreign ministry has announced that the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), an independent agency of the US government, has approved a loan of up to US$150m to enable BAC San José, a leading private bank, to expand lending to “underserved borrowers in Costa Rica”, dedicating at least half of loan proceeds to women and 30% to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).... Read More
Mexico
On 13 September Mexico’s national electoral institute (INE) issued a resolution ordering the government to stop broadcasting the official video spots recorded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to promote his second annual state-of-the-nation report (Informe).... Read More
* Mexico’s social security institute (IMSS) has reported that 92,390 formal jobs were recovered in August, pointing to a gradual economic recovery from the crisis stemming from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 13 September a 13-year-old indigenous Mapuche boy sustained serious injuries after being shot in the abdomen by a pellet during the occupation of a plot of land in Chile’s southern Araucanía Region.... Read More
*A US Judge James L Garrity of the Southern District of New York Court has rejected a proposal by Chile-based airline, Latam Airlines, to secure US$2.2bn in debtor-in-possession financing (DIP) due to objections to Tranche C of the proposal, which was designed to allow creditors to subscribe to shares of the company with the proceeds of the loan payment.... Read More
Washington Watch
Mexico: On 4 September Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that Mexico should permit and guarantee foreign investment in Mexico’s energy sector as long as it does not “affect the general interests of Mexico…harm public finances [or] destroy Mexican territory or cause pollution”.... Read More

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