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LatinNews Daily - 27 January 2021

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On 26 January, members of various Christian churches in Brazil filed a request to impeach President Jair Bolsonaro over his mismanagement of the national response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Andean
On 26 January, Peru’s interim president, Francisco Sagasti, announced a return to lockdown in 10 of the country’s 25 regions, in response to a surge in coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and deaths.... Read More
* Bolivia’s national statistics institute (INE) has released the country’s foreign trade figures for 2020, according to which annual imports totalled US$7.015bn, and annual exports totalled US$7.08bn, leaving a trade deficit of US$65m.... Read More
Brazil
* The monetary policy committee (Copom) of Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released the minutes from its latest meeting, which outline the overarching “uncertainty” in this year’s economic outlook.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 26 January Guatemala’s congress swore-in Mynor Moto as a new constitutional court (CC) judge.... Read More
* Honduras’s central bank (BCH) has released new figures which show that total exports in the first 11 months of 2020 were US$3.8bn, up 1.3% on the same period in 2019.... Read More
Mexico
On 26 January, the representative of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Mexico, Guillermo Fernández-Maldonado, expressed grave concern at media reports about the discovery of 19 charred bodies, thought to be of Guatemalan migrants, in Mexico’s north-eastern Tamaulipas state.... Read More
* Mexican conglomerate Grupo México and US-based manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, other petrochemical products, and power, Valero Energy, have announced plans to construct a new hydrocarbons storage terminal in Mexico’s Aguascalientes state.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 26 January Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández began a two-day state visit to Chile.... Read More
* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released the latest figures for the monthly indicator of economic activity (Emae), used as a preview of GDP growth, which show that the country’s economic activity contracted by 3.7% year-on-year in November 2020, as a result of the continued impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More

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