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LatinNews Daily - 17 August 2021

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On 16 August hundreds of people took part in public demonstrations across Argentina condemning the way in which the government has managed the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and the breaking of the social isolation rules by President Alberto Fernández.... Read More
Andean
On 16 August, protesters blocked access roads to the Las Bambas copper mine in Peru’s Cusco region after accusing mining company MMG of failing to honour a commitment to dialogue with the local community.... Read More
* Peru’s national statistics institute (Inei) has released its latest figures on employment, which show that 16.84m people were employed in the second quarter of the year, while 5.5% of the economically active population was unemployed, equating to 976,300 people.... Read More
Brazil
On 16 August, Brazil’s federal attorney general, Augusto Aras, informed the supreme court (STF) that his office (PGR) had opened a preliminary investigation into President Jair Bolsonaro’s attacks on the country’s voting system. ... Read More
* The Associação Brasileira das Empresas Aéreas (Abear), Brazil’s airline association, has informed that this August represents the fourth consecutive month of increased domestic air travel.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 16 August, the US-based press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on the Nicaraguan authorities to “stop harassing the La Prensa newspaper, allow its staff to enter their offices and report freely, and unconditionally release publisher Juan Lorenzo Holmann”.... Read More
* Honduras’s central bank (BCH) has released the latest figures for its monthly economic activity index (Imae), which show that economic activity grew 20.9% in June 2021 year-on-year, the fourth consecutive month of growth after increasing 30.5% in May, 27.0% in April, and 13.5% in March.... Read More
Mexico
On 16 August some 150 women gathered in front of the Ángel de la Independencia monument in Mexico City (CDMX) to protest against gender-based violence and the “criminalisation of protest”.... Read More
* Mexico’s agriculture & rural development ministry (Sader) has reported that the country’s agri-food trade balance posted a surplus of US$4.86bn in the first six months of this year, the third largest trade surplus recorded in 27 years.... Read More
Southern Cone
* Paraguay’s central bank (BCP) has released the latest issue of its survey on expectations for economic variables (EVE), a survey of economists and analysts, in which GDP growth forecasts have risen compared with a month earlier.... Read More

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