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LatinNews Daily - 24 March 2021
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On 23 March Bolivia’s former interim president, Jeanine Áñez (2019-2020), claimed that she had suffered “abuses” and that members of her family had been tortured since her arrest on 13 March, as further charges were brought against her by the interior ministry.... Read More
Andean
* Peru’s foreign trade & tourism minister, Claudia Cornejo, has reported that the country’s exports totalled US$39.3bn in 2020, a 15.3% drop compared to 2019.... Read More
Brazil
On 23 March, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro delivered a brief televised address regarding his government’s vaccination efforts against the coronavirus (Covid-19), to the sound of ‘panelaços’ (pots-and-pans protests) up and down the country.... Read More
* The Brazilian institute of economy (Ibre) at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) has released the latest figures for its measure of consumer confidence, the ICC, which shows that consumer confidence has fallen to its lowest levels since May last year.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 23 March Haiti’s justice minister, Rockfeller Vincent, called for the dismantling of Fantômes 509, an association of current and former members of the national police (PNd’H), which he described as a “terrorist group” within the PNd’H.... Read More
* A report by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) estimates that 2.8m people in Central America and the Dominican Republic will fall into poverty as a result of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, an increase of six percentage points on current poverty levels.... Read More
Mexico
On 23 March Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that Mexico is “not a colony” [of the US], but an “independent, sovereign, free country”.... Read More
* Mexico’s Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo (Fonatur) is reportedly planning to construct solar plants across the country, which will notably serve to power the electric sections of the Tren Maya railway in the Yucatán Peninsula.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 23 March Uruguay’s Partido Colorado (PC, Colorados) called on the government to further restrict the movement of people in the face of a sharp increase in coronavirus (Covid-19) infections.... Read More
* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released the latest figures on GDP growth, which show that the Argentine economy contracted by 9.9% in 2020.... Read More
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- BOLIVIA: Áñez alleges abuses in prison as more charges brought against her
- In brief: Peru’s exports plummeted in 2020
- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro tries to reclaim the Covid-19 narrative
- In brief: Consumer confidence tumbles in Brazil
- HAITI: Security minister responds to police violence
- In brief: Study shows pandemic impact on Central America poverty levels
- MEXICO: López Obrador insists on Mexico’s ‘sovereignty’
- In brief: Mexico to build solar plants to power Tren Maya
- URUGUAY: Lacalle Pou under pressure over pandemic management
- In brief: Argentina’s economy contracts for third year in a row