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LatinNews Daily - 16 September 2021

Main Briefing
On 15 September Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso replaced two members of his cabinet as he faced down nationwide demonstrations by students, trade unions, and indigenous associations.... Read More
Andean
* Peru’s national statistics institute (Inei) has released figures showing that production at the national level increased by 12.94% in July, compared with the same month in 2020.... Read More
Brazil
On 15 September, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro reiterated his support for the so-called ‘marco temporal’, a legal interpretation which puts a time limit on indigenous people’s right to their land and which is currently being discussed in the supreme court (STF).... Read More
* Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released the latest figures for the monthly index of economic activity (IBC-Br), a proxy for GDP, which shows that the country’s economic activity expanded 0.6% in July compared with June.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 15 September thousands of people took to the streets in El Salvador’s capital San Salvador.... Read More
* Costa Rica’s central bank (BCCR) has published its latest monthly economic activity index (IMAE), which showed a 10% year-on-year increase in July, up 17.2 percentage points on the same month in 2020.... Read More
Mexico
On 15 September some 500 Haitian, Central American and South American migrants in Mexico’s Tapachula city (Chiapas state) staged protests, demanding documents that would allow them to head north.... Read More
* The Mexican government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has bought over US$7bn from the country’s central bank (Banxico) reserves, in what is said to be its largest foreign currency purchase since 2008.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 15 September, Uruguay’s umbrella trade union, the Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores-Convención Nacional de Trabajadores (PIT-CNT) held a short-notice general strike – the third such strike since the government of centre-right President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou took office in March last year.... Read More
* Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández has unveiled a bill which seeks to promote investment in the hydrocarbons sector, and which he plans to present to congress this week.... Read More

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