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LatinNews Daily - 25 August 2021
Main Briefing
On 24 August, the international humanitarian NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released a report detailing how Colombia’s southern Nariño department is facing “one of [its] worst humanitarian crises in the last 20 years” due to ongoing mass displacements.... Read More
Andean
* Bolivia’s central bank (BCB) has announced that Bolivia has received US$326.4m in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of the IMF’s expansion of its SDR programme.... Read More
Brazil
On 24 August Brazil’s federal senate renewed the mandate of the attorney general, Augusto Aras, for a further two years.
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* Brazil’s agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina, has announced that agricultural producers in the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Paraná who suffered losses due to major frosts in July will be compensated.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 24 August protesters took to the streets in Panama City in response to an executive resolution (71) issued earlier this month by Panama’s ministry for the presidency which restricts public access to information.... Read More
* Nicaragua’s national assembly has approved new reforms to the general law of banks, non-banking financial institutions and financial groups, which it says will permit it to comply with commitments made in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Financial Action Group of Latin America (Gafilat).... Read More
Mexico
On 24 August the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland condemned the murder of Mexican journalist, Jacinto Romero Flores, who was shot dead in his car on 19 August in Ixtaczoquitlán municipality, Veracruz state.... Read More
* The international credit ratings agency, Fitch Ratings, has warned that fires reported by Mexico’s state-owned oil firm, Pemex, at the company's oil platforms in the Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) offshore oil fields, its largest production complex, may slow its produciton.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 24 August, the Chilean authorities filed a lawsuit against those responsible for the burning barricades left at the La Araucanía international airport on 22 and 23 August.... Read More
* During an official visit to Turkey, Uruguay’s foreign minister Francisco Bustillo has announced plans to strengthen economic ties between the two countries.... Read More
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- COLOMBIA: MSF warns Nariño facing humanitarian catastrophe
- In brief: Bolivia receives IMF assistance
- BRAZIL: Senate extends term of divisive attorney general
- In brief: Brazil to support agricultural producers hit by frosts
- PANAMA: Protests over new resolution restricting access to information
- In brief: Nicaragua approves reforms to banking and financial sector law
- MEXICO: López Obrador under renewed pressure over violence targeting journalists
- In brief: Fitch warns of slowdown in Mexico’s Pemex production
- CHILE: Disruptive indigenous protests in the Araucanía
- In brief: Uruguay and Turkey boost trade and investment ties