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LatinNews Daily - 17 March 2021

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On 16 March, the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) public health institute declared that Brazil is facing the “biggest healthcare and hospital collapse in the history of [the country]” due to the severity of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Andean
On 16 March Andrés Arauz and Guillermo Lasso began campaigning for the second-round run-off of Ecuador’s presidential election, scheduled for 11 April, after indigenous candidate Yaku Pérez was denied his appeal for a recount.... Read More
* Transport unions including Asociación de Empresas de Transporte Interprovincial de Pasajeros (Cotrapoip) and Unión Nacional de Conductores del Perú (UNT Perú) have begun a national indefinite strike over complaints regarding high fuel prices and toll rates.... Read More
Brazil
* Brazil’s economy ministry has released the latest figures from the national employment registry (Novo Caged), which show that 260,353 new jobs were created in the formal sector in January this year, the highest such figure for the month of January since current records began.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 16 March the Costa Rican government led by President Carlos Alvarado named career diplomat Xinia Vargas Mora as Costa Rica’s new ambassador to Nicaragua.... Read More
* The Dominican Republic’s economy, planning, and development ministry (MEPyD) has published a new report which shows that the country’s national poverty rate rose to 23.4% in 2020, up from 21.0% in 2019, as a result of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic which caused the country’s GDP to contract 6.7% in 2020.... Read More
Mexico
On 16 March feminist and women’s groups in Mexico’s south-western state of Oaxaca demanded that the ruling left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) drop its support for a candidate for election to the state legislature, who they accuse of sharing pornographic and demeaning images of women.... Read More
* Mexico’s agriculture ministry (Sader) has released new figures which show that agricultural exports totalled US$1.576bn in January 2021, a 12.1% drop on the same month in 2020.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 16 March Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández appointed Martín Soria as his new justice minister.... Read More
* Argentina’s economy ministry has announced that it has issued Ar$76.96bn (US$844m) worth of treasury bonds on the domestic market, through the re-opening of two short-term bonds maturing in July this year, and the issuing of a new bond which matures in February 2022.... Read More

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