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LatinNews Daily - 27 July 2021

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On 26 July Peru’s unicameral national congress elected a conservative congressional leadership, posing an early challenge to President-elect Pedro Castillo and the far-left Perú Libre party for which he won election.... Read More
Andean
* Construction has started on Bolivia’s first nuclear research reactor in the city of El Alto (La Paz department), which, located at over 4000m above sea level, is expected to be the most high-altitude of its kind in the world.... Read More
Brazil
On 26 July two Brazilian public security think-tanks, the Instituto Igarapé and the Instituto Sou da Paz, expressed their “huge concern” with a resolution, issued that day by the federal government, which scraps the country’s export tax for firearms sold in Latin America.... Read More
* Brazil’s economy ministry has released figures on the subsidies awarded by the government last year, which show the “success of the subsidies reduction policy adopted from 2016 onwards”.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 26 July the Plataforma de Seguridad Ciudadana (PSC), a group of around 15 Salvadorean civil society groups, issued a statement expressing concerns about the militarisation of public security under President Nayib Bukele’s security strategy, Plan Control Territorial (PCT).... Read More
* Panama’s banking superintendency (SBP) has fined the Bank of China a total of US$1.25m for non-compliance with anti-money laundering rules and non-compliance with Panama’s banking regulatory regime.... Read More
Mexico
On 26 July Mexico’s supreme court (SCJN) stated that it was the duty of the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to guarantee patients’ access to medicines and treatment.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released the results from the new edition of its national employment survey (Enoe), which show that the unemployment rate stood at 4% in June, equivalent to 2.3m people in search of work.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 26 July Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera announced the gradual reopening of the country’s schools after these were closed last year to try to contain the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. ... Read More
* Argentina’s state-owned oil company, Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF), has announced that it will undertake its first project to explore the potential of the 'Vaca Muerta' shale oil and gas deposits in the province of Mendoza.... Read More

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