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LatinNews Daily - 25 May 2021

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On 24 May, Keiko Fujimori, the right-wing candidate for Fuerza Popular in the second round run-off of Peru’s presidential election, called on Peruvians not to let a pre-election terrorist attack deter them from voting on 6 June.... Read More
Andean
* Peru’s national statistics institute (Inei) has released new figures which show that the country’s copper production increased by 19.6% in March 2021 compared to the same month in 2020.... Read More
Brazil
On 24 May, Brazil’s federal police (PF) arrested Italian national, Rocco Morabito, a leader of the powerful ‘Ndrangheta Calabrian mafia and one of Italy’s most wanted men.  ... Read More
* The Confederação Nacional do Comércio de Bens, Serviços e Turismo (CNC), a private sector lobby group in Brazil, has released the latest figures for its indicator on the intention of households’ consumption (ICF), which shows a prevailing sense of pessimism as to the economic outlook.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 24 May Nicaraguan opposition presidential hopeful, Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, the daughter of former president Violeta Chamorro (1990-1997), tweeted that her bank accounts had been frozen.... Read More
* The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$150m loan to support the sustainability of Panama’s micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and promote employment by providing access to financing.... Read More
Mexico
On 24 May, a group of trainee teachers from Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas staged demonstrations in the capital, Mexico City (CDMX).... Read More
* Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) has announced that it will be holding two new US dollar auctions, due to take place on 26 and 28 May for US$400m each time.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 24 May Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández announced that he had instructed his lawyers to take legal action against Patricia Bullrich, the president of the right-of-centre opposition Propuesta Republicana (PRO) party, for slander.... Read More
* Argentina’s Buenos Aires province has once again extended the deadline for the restructuring offer of its US$7bn in foreign debt, after failing to reach an agreement with creditors.... Read More

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