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LatinNews Daily - 10 June 2021

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On 9 June, Keiko Fujimori, the contender of the right-wing Fuerza Popular party in the second round of Peru’s presidential election, filed a legal challenge as she seeks to prevent an imminent win by Pedro Castillo, of the far-left Perú Libre  party, who has already declared victory.... Read More
Andean
* Venezuela’s foreign minister, Jorge Arreaza, has said that US$6bn of the country’s assets are frozen in foreign accounts as a result of international sanctions against the goverment led by Nicolás Maduro.... Read More
Brazil
On 9 June, Eduardo Paes, the mayor of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, called for a police force that “investigates more and kills less” after a shootout between police and suspected criminals claimed yet another innocent life in Rio.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the latest figures on the consumer price index (IPCA), which show that monthly inflation reached 0.83% in May, the highest figure for the month in 25 years.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 9 June the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced new economic sanctions on Camila Ortega, the daughter of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega; Nicaragua's central bank (BCN) president, Ovidio Reyes; Edwin Castro, a national legislator; and Julio Rodríguez, a brigadier general in the army.... Read More
* Nicaragua’s central bank (BCN) has released new figures which show that the country’s GDP in the first quarter of 2021 grew 3.4% year-on-year.... Read More
Mexico
On 9 June Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that Finance Minister Arturo Herrera, a close ally, as his choice for new central bank (Banxico) governor.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has published its latest figures on the consumer price index, which show that monthly inflation rose 0.2% in May, reaching 5.89% for the year.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 9 June, the Chilean government demanded full respect for the agreement signed on 15 November 2019 over the process for drafting a new constitution.... Read More
* Tech giant, Google, has announced plans to construct a new submarine cable connecting the east coast of the US with Las Toninas in Argentina, with additional landings in Punta del Este in Uruguay and Praia Grande in Brazil.... Read More

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