LatinNews Daily - 21 September 2020

On 18 September, Peru’s congress voted decisively against impeaching President Martín Vizcarra for ‘moral incapacity’.... Read More

* Ecuador’s energy minister, René Ortiz, has announced that on 21 September the government will launch an international tender for the renovation of the Esmeraldas oil refinery (in the eponymous province), requiring some US$2.4bn in investment.... Read More

On 18 September Rodrigo Maia, the president of Brazil’s chamber of deputies, criticised US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s visit to Brazil, during which the latter called for a change of government in Venezuela.... Read More

* Unemployment in Brazil reached its highest level yet during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in the fourth week of August, as 14.3% of the population (13.7m people) were seeking work, according to the most recent survey carried out by the national statistics institute (Ibge).... Read More

On 18 September Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse named a new provisional electoral council (CEP).... Read More

*Commercial flights to El Salvador have resumed six months after these were suspended to stop the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19).... Read More

On 18 September Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador rejected criticism from a host of intellectuals who had signed a document published the previous day in defence of freedom of expression, urging him to refrain from “sowing hatred and division in Mexican society”.... Read More

*The Mexican peso appreciated by 1.03% against the US dollar to trade at M$21.07/US$1 on 18 September.... Read More

On 18 September Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández announced that his government was extending the confinement measures put in place in the country to contain the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic until 11 October.... Read More

* Chile-based Latam Airlines Group has announced that its amended proposal to secure US$2.45bn debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing has now been approved by a New York bankruptcy court.... Read More

Central America: On 14 September a US appeals court upheld the decision by the US government led by President Donald Trump to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for Salvadorean, Haitian, and Nicaraguan nationals, among others.... Read More