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LatinNews Daily - 30 March 2021
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On 29 March, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro announced changes to six ministerial positions in his cabinet, including the departure of Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo and of Defence Minister Fernando Azevedo e Silva.... Read More
Andean
On 29 March various Venezuelan human rights NGOs accused Venezuela’s police special action force (Faes), an elite unit, of extrajudicial killings during counterinsurgency operations in the western state of Apure.... Read More
* Ecuador’s state-run oil company, Petroecuador, has announced a “strategic alliance” with the private crude oil transport company Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP), aimed at boosting oil exports whereby maritime infrastructure will be shared.... Read More
Brazil
* The World Bank (WB) has published its latest semiannual report on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), in which it estimates that Brazil’s GDP will grow 3% this year.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 29 March the opposition civil society group, Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia (ACJD), called on the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega to make good on democracy-related agreements signed two years earlier.... Read More
* Honduras’s Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (Unah) has released a new study which shows that the rate of open unemployment increased from 5.7% of the population in 2019 to 10.9% in 2020.... Read More
Mexico
On 29 March the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) condemned the killing of a Salvadorean migrant, Victoria Esperanza Salazar, at the hands of Mexican police officers.... Read More
* Mexico’s private sector lobby Confederación de Cámaras Industriales (Concamin) and officials from Quintana Roo’s state government have unveiled economic recovery strategies for the south-eastern state – which is hugely dependent on tourism, one of the sectors most affected by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 29 March Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández swore in Martín Soria as the new justice minister in a ceremony in the presidential palace Casa Rosada.
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*Argentina’s Buenos Aires province has announced that it will extend the deadline for its US$7bn foreign debt restructuring offer until 23 April.... Read More
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- BRAZIL: Under pressure, Bolsonaro shakes up cabinet
- VENEZUELA: Elite police unit accused of executing civilians
- In brief: Ecuador’s state-run oil company enters partnership to boost exports
- In brief: Brazil to grow below regional average in 2021
- NICARAGUA: Ortega under renewed pressure over human rights and democracy
- In brief: New study shows pandemic impact on employment in Honduras
- MEXICO: Police brutality produces international condemnation
- In brief: Economic recovery strategies revealed for Mexico’s Quintana Roo
- ARGENTINA: New broom advocates sweeping judicial reform
- In brief: Argentina’s Buenos Aires extends debt restructuring deadline