LatinNews Daily - 13 April 2021

On 12 April the US government led by President Joe Biden confirmed it had reached agreements with its Honduran and Guatemalan counterparts, along with Mexico, to boost border security and stem the flow of illegal migration.... Read More

On 12 April the Colombian government issued a decree regulating the aerial fumigation of coca crops, as it seeks to resume this controversial drug eradication strategy.... Read More

* Ecuador’s government bonds have rallied after the centre-right candidate Guillermo Lasso won the country’s presidential election on 11 April, defeating the leftist Andrés Arauz.... Read More

On 12 April, the presidents of Brazil’s senate and chamber of deputies, Rodrigo Pacheco and Arthur Lira, spoke to United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres about Brazil’s severe public health crisis resulting from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More

* Brazil’s national council of coffee exporters (Cecafé) has released its latest report, which shows that coffee exports totalled 11.02m sacks (one sack = 60kg) in the first quarter of the year, a 10.4% increase on exports in Q1 of 2020.... Read More

* Costa Rica’s central bank (BCCR) has published its latest monthly economic activity index (Imae), which showed a 4.7% year-on-year decrease in February as a result of the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More

On 12 April, the University of California San Francisco’s Institute for Global Health Sciences published a report that analyses Mexico’s response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and found that 190,000 deaths could have been prevented with better management of the public health emergency.... Read More

* The president of Mexico’s central bank (Banxico), Alejandro Díaz de León, has said that the country faces challenges on its path to economic recovery from the crisis caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More

On 12 April the interior minister for Argentina’s Buenos Aires province, María Teresa García, echoed warnings from medical experts about the unprecedented speed of transmission of the coronavirus (Covid-19) and the need for strict enforcement of restrictions. Analysis:... Read More

* The Uruguayan government has announced that it will freeze fuel prices this year in a bid to support local business and kickstart a domestic economic recovery.... Read More