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LatinNews Daily - 10 November 2021
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On 9 November Chile’s lower chamber of congress voted in favour of impeaching outgoing President Sebastián Piñera, who stands accused of wrongdoing in the 2010 sale of his family’s shareholding in a mining company.... Read More
Andean
On 9 November, Peru’s Defence Minister Walter Ayala was summoned for questioning by congress’s defence committee over alleged government interference in military promotions.... Read More
* Ecuador’s minister of production, foreign trade, investment and fishing, Julio José Prado, has announced that the government will present investment opportunities totalling US$30bn to participants at the investment forum ‘Ecuador Open for Business 2021’, which will take place from 18-19 November.... Read More
Brazil
On 9 November, Brazil’s federal chamber of deputies approved in a second round of voting a constitutional reform known as the ‘PEC dos precatórios’, which allows for the staggered repayment of court-mandated state debt (known as ‘precatórios’) and eases fiscal rules. ... Read More
* Brazil’s infrastructure minister, Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, has spoken to ambassadors from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries to present what the Brazilian government describes as “the biggest and most sophisticated programme of infrastructure and transport concessions”.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 9 November El Salvador’s Interior Minister Juan Carlos Bidegain presented a proposed ‘foreign agents law' before the country’s 84-member unicameral legislature.... Read More
* A group of Guatemalan economists have highlighted the need to address informality in Guatemala, among other concerns about the job market.... Read More
Mexico
On 9 November Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador floated the creation of a US$1trn ‘World Plan of Fraternity and Wellbeing’ to help the 750m people worldwide surviving on less than US$2 a day.... Read More
* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released its latest figures on the national consumer price index (INPC), which show that monthly inflation stood at 0.84% in October.... Read More
Southern Cone
* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released its latest figures on industrial manufacturing and construction, which show that both activities grew year-on-year in September, but only industrial manufacturing increased compared with the previous month.... Read More
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- CHILE: Lower chamber votes to impeach Piñera
- PERU: Defence minister under pressure
- In brief: Ecuador to present investment projects totalling US$30bn
- BRAZIL: Reform easing fiscal rules advances amid criticisms
- In brief: Brazil infrastructure roadshow seeks investments
- EL SALVADOR: Bukele’s government unveils proposed ‘foreign agents law’
- In brief: Economists flag up informality concerns in Guatemala
- MEXICO: López Obrador proposes global anti-poverty fund
- In brief: Mexico’s inflation rises
- In brief: Argentina’s construction sector continues to slow