LatinNews Daily - 24 June 2021

On 23 June Ricardo Salles resigned his position as Brazil’s environment minister.... Read More

On 23 June a protester was killed by police in Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, as unrest threatened to bubble over once again in response to continued police killings of demonstrators.... Read More

* An indefinite strike has begun amongst Bolivian airport workers, with only emergency and humanitarian flights being staffed, as well as those that were already in the air at the launch of the strike.... Read More

* Brazil’s Confederação Nacional das Indústrias (CNI) business lobby has released its latest survey on the industrial sector, which points towards positive results for the sector in May.... Read More

On 23 June hundreds of students staged protests outside the national legislative assembly in Panama's capital, Panama City.... Read More

* Publio de Gracia, the director of Panama’s tax authority (DGI), has announced that Panama’s tax take in the year up to May totalled US$2.16bn, up 12% on the amount registered over the same period in 2020 and an increase of US$466m on the amount budgeted for the period.... Read More

On 23 June the Mexican branch of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) condemned the murder of journalist, Saúl Tijerina Rentería, the previous day in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila state.... Read More

* German pharmaceutical company Bayer has had an appeal against an August 2020 reform to Mexico’s acquisitions law accepted.... Read More

On 23 June Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera sent a formal request to the national congress asking it to approve another extension to the state of exception declared by his administration due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More

* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released the country’s latest GDP figures which show 2.5% year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2021.... Read More