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LatinNews Daily - 20 August 2021
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On 19 August Venezuela’s de facto president, Nicolás Maduro, announced a cabinet reshuffle that saw Jorge Arreaza replaced as foreign minister by Félix Plasencia.... Read More
Andean
* Ecuador’s energy minister, Juan Carlos Bermeo, has said that President Guillermo Lasso’s administration has no plans to abandon the current system of price bands for petrol fuels, despite protests calling for a reversion to the old system of fixed fuel prices.... Read More
Brazil
On 19 August, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro filed a request with the supreme court (STF), questioning an article in its internal regulation which allows the court to launch investigations ex officio, without prior approval from the public prosecutors’ office (MPF).... Read More
* The Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab), the logistics arm of Brazil’s agriculture ministry, has announced that it now expects the yield from the 2021/2022 sugar cane harvest to fall by 9.5% compared with the 2020/2021 harvest, a larger reduction than the 4% drop forecast in May.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 19 August The Bahamas’ Prime Minister Hubert Minnis dissolved parliament and announced a general election would take place on 16 September.... Read More
* Panama’s national statistics institute (Inec) has released new figures which show that Panama’s exports totalled US$1.66bn in the first half of the year, a 108.7% increase on the same period in 2020.... Read More
Mexico
On 19 August Mexico’s ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party failed to secure enough votes in the permanent commission of the federal congress to call extraordinary sessions to debate secondary legislation enabling the staging of a presidential recall referendum next year.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show Mexico’s unemployment rate stood at 4.2% in the second quarter of the year, equivalent to 2.4m people in search of work.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 19 August, an arson attack in Chile’s southern Biobío Region left two individuals dead, raising new questions over violence in the Chilean south.... Read More
* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released the latest figures for its monthly index of economic activity (Emae), which expanded 10.8% year-on-year in June, largely due to the low basis of comparison given the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on the economy in June 2020.... Read More
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- VENEZUELA: Foreign Minister Arreaza replaced in cabinet shake-up
- In brief: Ecuador’s energy minister insists fuel price bands will stay
- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro questions STF regulation
- In brief: Brazil’s sugar cane harvest affected by adverse climate
- BAHAMAS: Minnis calls early election
- In brief: Panama’s exports surge
- MEXICO: López Obrador, Morena suffer setbacks in congress
- In brief: Mexico’s unemployment rate falls
- CHILE: New attack in the south ups pressure on authorities
- In brief: Argentina’s economic activity continues to recover