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LatinNews Daily - 26 October 2021

Main Briefing
On 25 October the first day of a three-day nationwide general strike paralysed Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince as well as the country’s other main cities.... Read More
Andean
On 25 October, Peru’s Vice President Dina Boluarte dismissed a corruption investigation into her as she faces scrutiny over her alleged links to illegal campaign financing by the far-left Perú Libre (PL).... Read More
* The Observatorio Venezolano de Finanzas (OVF), an independent think tank founded by Venezuela’s political opposition, has reported that overall, economic activity from January-September declined by 2.7% compared to the same period in 2020.... Read More
Brazil
On 25 October, Brazil’s Vice President Hamilton Mourão said that the government led by President Jair Bolsonaro would present more ambitious environmental targets at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) which kicks off later this week in Glasgow, Scotland.... Read More
*Itaú-Unibanco, a local private bank, has released revised forecasts and now predicts that Brazil’s economy will go into recession next year.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* The governor of the Dominican Republic’s central bank (BCRD), Héctor Valdez Albizu, has hailed new figures which show the country’s GDP grew 12.7% in the first nine months of 2021 compared with the same period in 2020.... Read More
Mexico
On 25 October, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said that the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador would act “prudently” with regards to a new migrant caravan which set off from southern Mexico two days earlier.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released the latest figures for its monthly global indicator of economic activity (Igae), which show that economic activity declined 1.6% in seasonally-adjusted terms in August 2021 compared with the previous month.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 25 October Chile’s interior minister Rodrigo Delgado admitted that Chile is suffering an immigration “crisis” and lacks the necessary infrastructure to deal with large numbers of undocumented arrivals.... Read More
* The US Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (AmCham) has expressed concern at the decision by President Alberto Fernández’s government to impose a 90-day price freeze on 1,432 products, retroactive to 1 October.... Read More

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