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LatinNews Daily - 12 July 2021

Main Briefing
On 11 July thousands of people took to the streets in Cuba’s capital, Havana, and other cities and towns across the island, calling for an end to the Communist government led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel.... Read More
Andean
On 10 July Peru’s attorney general’s office opened “preliminary investigations” into members of congress who ignored an order by a supreme court judge to suspend the election of six magistrates to the constitutional court (TC).... Read More
* Peru’s central bank (BCRP) has published figures showing that the country’s trade balance stood at US$815m in May, amounting to a total accumulated balance of US$11.23bn in the twelve months to May.... Read More
Brazil
On 9 July, Rodrigo Pacheco, the president of Brazil’s senate, firmly defended the independence of the bi-cameral federal congress and repudiated attempts to cast doubt over the legitimacy of the country’s past and future elections.... Read More
* Brazil’s economy minister, Paulo Guedes, has repeated his assurances that a planned tax reform will not translate into an increase in taxes for Brazilians.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* El Salvador’s central bank (BCR) has released new figures which show the production of industrial goods, as reflected in the industrial production index (IPI), rose 49.8% in May 2021 compared with the same month in 2020, while the monthly variation was up 1.1%.... Read More
Mexico
On 9 July the authorities in Mexico’s western state of Michoacán launched a new security operation to try and restore law and order in and around the municipality of Aguililla, which has been caught up in a vicious turf war between rival drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) over the last seven months, causing growing humanitarian problems.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show that 4.59m tourists visited Mexico in May, of which 2.66m were international tourists.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 11 July Paraguayan prosecutors presented formal charges against two active members of the military arrested on suspicion of arms trafficking.... Read More
* Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández has extended the validity of a presidential decree of national urgency (DNU) which was issued in late June and restricts entry to the country via international flights, including of Argentine nationals, in a bid to reduce the threat posed by the more contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus (Covid-19).... Read More
Washington Watch
El Salvador/Panama: Between 27 and 30 June, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland travelled to Panama and El Salvador heading a delegation that included representatives from the US National Security Council, the US Department of Defence, and the US Southern Command.... Read More

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