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LatinNews Daily - 15 June 2021

Main Briefing
On 14 June Camilo Saldarriaga Jiménez, a top aide to Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado, presented his resignation.... Read More
Andean
On 14 June, Ecuador’s prisons authority (SNAI) announced that two people had been killed in an uprising at the Penitenciaría del Litoral prison in the city of Guayaquil.... Read More
* The Sociedad Nacional de Minería, Petróleo y Energía (SNMPE), a local extractive industry lobby, has announced that Peru’s mining exports totalled US$11.17bn in January-April, representing a 49% increase on the same period in 2020, when exports totalled US$7.5bn.... Read More
Brazil
On 14 June, the São Paulo state prosecutor’s office (MPSP) launched an investigation into the organisation of a motorbike rally in support of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro two days earlier.... Read More
* Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released the latest figures for the monthly indicator of economic activity (IBC-Br), a proxy for GDP, which shows a positive result for April.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* The Central American development bank (BCIE) has announced that it will work together with El Salvador’s government to provide advice on implementing the cryptocurrency, bitcoin, as legal tender.... Read More
Mexico
On 14 June Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, the leader of the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in Mexico’s federal senate, dismissed the possibility of the PRI forging an alliance with the ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party in congress to advance President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s legislative agenda.... Read More
* The international credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service has said that the results of Mexico’s midterm federal legislative elections and changes in key economic posts are “unlikely to lead to a material shift in macroeconomic policies”.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 14 June, the Colegio Médico de Chile (Colmed) medical union presented a strategy for defeating the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in the country, which includes a three-week ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown, changes to the government’s ‘Paso a Paso’ re-opening plan, and the suspension of the 'mobility pass' for vaccinated people.... Read More
* Argentine multinational group Arcor, which specialises in consumer food products, agribusiness, and packaging, has announced an investment of US$20m in a new packaging plant in Misiones province in the north-east of the country.... Read More

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