LatinNews Daily - 05 October 2020

On 2 October, Bolivia’s interim president, Jeanine Áñez, warned that there would be “consequences” if the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) opposition party takes to the streets to reject the result of the 18 October general election.... Read More

* Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno has announced the arrival of the first US$2bn disbursement from the US$6.5bn Extended Fund Facility (EFF) credit agreement reached with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in August, and outlined the areas in which these funds will be spent.... Read More

On 2 October a Brazilian senate committee set up to monitor the response to the fires in the Pantanal wetlands asked Environment Minister Ricardo Salles to present detailed information on the fines distributed over the past five years by the government’s environmental watchdog, Ibama, amid reports that these have fallen significantly under the government led by President Jair Bolsonaro.... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the latest industrial sector figures, which show that industrial production increased by 3.2% in August compared with July.... Read More

On 4 October Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado announced the suspension of the initial stage of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over a US$1.75bn credit agreement.... Read More

*Cuba’s deputy prime minister, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, and Russia’s state deputy transport secretary, Dmitriy Zverev, have discussed the development of Cuba’s railway, automobile, and maritime sectors in what was the final day of a working visit that Cabrisas paid to Russia.... Read More

On 2 October Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned that if Mexico does not fulfil its obligations under the bilateral 1944 Water Treaty, the US government could impose economic sanctions on the country. ... Read More

* Mexico’s state-own electricity firm, Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), has announced the conclusion of the construction of the final tract of the ‘Wahalajara’ cross-border gas pipeline network that links Waha natural gas fields in the US state of Texas, to the city of Guadalajara in Mexico’s Jalisco state.... Read More

On 3 October, Chileans took the streets of Santiago for a second consecutive day of protests, in outrage at the Carabineros militarised police, who were accused of pushing an underage protester off a bridge during a demonstration the previous day.... Read More

* Uruguay’s tax authority (DGI) has reported that the net tax take for the month of August was Ur$36.1bn (US$848m), a 2.6% year-on-year fall.... Read More

Cuba: On 28 and 30 September the US Department of State announced further economic sanctions against Cuba.... Read More