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LatinNews Daily - 15 January 2021

Main Briefing
On 14 January, Brazil’s federal public prosecutor’s office (MPF), along with state and sector-specific prosecutors and public defenders, noted that the federal government is responsible for coordinating activities related to public health policies and has failed to adequately address the public health crisis currently devastating Manaus city, Amazonas state, where oxygen supplies are running out and coronavirus (Covid-19) patients are being transported to neighbouring states. ... Read More
Andean
On 14 January, Colombia’s presidential advisor for national security, Rafael Guarín, hit back at criticisms made by the ‘Segunda Marquetalia’ guerrilla group, insisting that “all political actors must repudiate them, and not accept their interference in democracy”.... Read More
* Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno has announced the signing of an agreement with the US government’s International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) “for the delivery of up to US$3.5bn, which will be used to pre-pay expensive debt, and to reactivate [Ecuador’s] economy”.... Read More
Brazil
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its latest forecast for the 2021 agricultural harvest, according to which it expects this year’s harvest of grains, cereals, legumes, and oilseeds to total 260.5m tonnes (t), a 2.5% increase on the 2020 harvest.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 14 January three opposition national deputies in Honduras - Luis Redondo, Jorge Cálix, and David Armando Reyes - presented a request before the 128-member unicameral national legislature calling for President Juan Orlando Hernández to be impeached and removed from office.... Read More
* Costa Rica has formally requested World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute consultations with Panama regarding measures imposed by Panama that restrict or prohibit the import of products such as strawberries, dairy products, meat products, pineapples, and bananas from Costa Rica.... Read More
Mexico
On 14 January Mexico’s attorney general’s office (FGR) ruled out taking any legal action against former defence minister, General Salvador Cienfuegos (2012-2018), who was arrested in the US last October accused of drug trafficking and money laundering by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).... Read More
*Mexico’s finance minister, Arturo Herrera, has said that the government is prepared to deal with an extended economic crisis produced by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 14 January Argentina’s former domestic trade secretary, Guillermo Moreno (2006-2013), said that the situation in the country is “very bad” and that President Alberto Fernández “does not know where he is taking Argentina”.... Read More
* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released the latest figures for the consumer price index (IPC), which show that monthly inflation stood at 4% in December, bringing the annual inflation rate to 36.1%.... Read More

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