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LatinNews Daily - 15 July 2021
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On 14 July Héctor Mairena, the spokesperson for Nicaraguan opposition party Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos), slammed the 7 November general election in which President Daniel Ortega is seeking another term for the ruling Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) as a “farce” and said Unamos would not participate.... Read More
Andean
On 14 July, Venezuela’s de facto president, Nicolás Maduro, called on the leading opposition figure, Henrique Capriles Radonski, to take part in the November regional elections, in an apparent attempt to widen divisions among the opposition... Read More
* Peru’s congress has ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement of Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Asia-Pacific regional free trade agreement (FTA) with 97 votes in favour, none against, and nine abstentions.... Read More
Brazil
On 14 July, the United Kingdom-based daily, Financial Times, published an editorial in which it argued that “Brazil should pay for not halting deforestation”.... Read More
* Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released the latest data from its monthly index of economic activity (IBC-Br), a proxy for GDP, which shows that economic activity contracted by 0.43% in May compared with April.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* Panama’s President Laurentino Coritzo has announced that Luxembourg-headquartered telecommunications firm, Millicom, a leading provider of fixed and mobile services in Latin America operating under the Tigo brand, will invest US$250m for the 2021-2022 period in modernising and expanding fixed and mobile networks in Panama, to benefit 800,000 Panamanians.... Read More
Mexico
On 14 July the attorney general’s office of Mexico's Tamaulipas state, reported that a suspected regional leader of the Cártel del Golfo (CDG) drug trafficking organisation (DTO), José Alfredo ‘El Calamardo’ Hernández Campos, had been freed from custody in an armed attack on the of its offices in city of Reyonsa.... Read More
* Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has hit out at Spanish businesses during his latest daily press briefing.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 14 July Argentina’s health ministry reported that the country’s official coronavirus (Covid-19) death had surpassed 100,000.... Read More
* Chile’s central bank (BCCh) has increased its interest rate by 25 basis points to 0.75%.... Read More
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- NICARAGUA: Opposition refuses to participate in election
- VENEZUELA: Maduro seeks to fracture the opposition
- In brief: Peru ratifies Trans-Pacific trade deal
- BRAZIL: International pressure on deforestation set to increase
- In brief: Negative variation in Brazil’s May economic activity
- In brief: New telecoms investment announced in Panama
- MEXICO: Drug trafficker sprung from custody in armed raid
- In brief: Mexico’s López Obrador has a dig at Spanish firms
- ARGENTINA: Covid-19 death toll reaches alarming figure
- In brief: Chile’s central bank raises benchmark interest rate