LatinNews Daily - 12 October 2021

On 11 October protests were held across Bolivia against a bill backed by the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government, which critics argue would enable the persecution of political opponents by expanding the authorities’ powers when investigating money laundering and other crimes.... Read More

* Ecuador’s tax authority (SRI) has announced that the September tax haul totalled US$1.01bn, up 22% on the same month in 2020.... Read More

On 12 October AllRise, a non-profit Austria-based group specialised in environmental litigation, filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague accusing Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro of committing crimes against humanity through allowing the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. ... Read More

* Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer has signed a deal with US private aviation firm NetJets to deliver 100 new aircraft from Embraer’s Phenom 300 executive light jet series.... Read More

On 11 October Guatemala’s human rights ombudsman Jordán Rodas and human rights groups criticised the decision by the head of the attorney general’s office (AG), Consuelo Porras, to transfer human rights prosecutor Hilda Pineda from her post.... Read More

* The Caribbean tourism organisation (CTO) has released new figures which reveal that international tourist arrivals to the Caribbean reached 6.6m in the first half of 2021, down 12.0% on the same period last year.... Read More

On 11 October Mexico’s Gremio Gasero Nacional (GGN) grouping of small private and independent liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distributors announced an indefinite strike in response to a fuel price increase revealed by the federal energy regulatory commission (CRE) as part of the government’s energy reform. Analysis:... Read More

* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show that 2.77m international tourists entered Mexico in August, up 105.7% on the 1.35m who visited in August 2020, but fewer than the 3.57m registered in August 2019 before the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic disrupted travel and tourism.... Read More

On 11 October federal deputies from the Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) opposition alliance called for the resignation of the security minister, Aníbal Fernández after he appeared to threaten cartoonist Cristian Dzwonik, known as Nik, on social media.... Read More

* Juan Benavides, the president of Chilean state-owned mining company Codelco, has said that its copper output this year will be up 2%-3% on 2020, despite the negative impact of recent strikes which paralysed activity at some of Codelco’s mines, notably its Andina operation.... Read More