LatinNews Daily - 01 July 2021

On 30 June, a politically heterogeneous group filed a request to impeach Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, adding to the 120-plus impeachment requests that have already landed on the desk of the president of the chamber of deputies, Arthur Lira. ... Read More

On 30 June, the director of the Venezuelan NGO Fundaredes, Javier Tarazona, called for an investigation into the former interior minister and governor of Guárico state, Ramón Rodríguez Chacín (2012-2017), accusing him of having ties to the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla group.... Read More

* Colombia’s national statistics department (Dane) has reported that the national unemployment rate fell to 15.6% in May 2021, down 5.8 percentage points on the same month in 2020.... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the latest figures on the unemployment rate, which stands at 14.7% for the February-April rolling quarter.... Read More

On 30 June the Cuban government led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed that the outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19) was at the community transmission stage in Cuba.... Read More

* Honduras’s central bank (BCH) has released new figures which show the country’s GDP grew 6.2% in the first quarter of 2021 compared with the previous quarter, while year-on-year GDP growth was 1.3%.... Read More

On 30 June, Mexico’s national human rights commission (CNDH) condemned the arrest of journalists as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ramped up his rhetoric against the local press.... Read More

* Zurab Pololikashvili, the secretary general of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), has said that the Tren Maya railway, a flagship infrastructure project of the Mexican government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, could “double or triple local and international tourism in Mexico’s south-east region in the short term”.... Read More

On 30 June local doctors and analysts warned that the new restrictions on the arrival of international flights introduced by the Argentine government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) are affecting the provision of critical medical and industrial supplies in the country.... Read More

* Chile’s national statistics institute (INE) has released its latest unemployment figures which show that the national unemployment rate was 10% in the March-May 2021 rolling quarter, an improvement on the 11.2% rate registered for the same quarter in 2020.... Read More