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LatinNews Daily - 11 November 2021

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On 10 November the anti-government protests that began in Bolivia on 8 November intensified, with President Luis Arce cancelling a trip to Potosí department due to the unrest.... Read More
Andean
* Peru has successfully issued €1bn (US$1.15bn) of “social bonds”, according to a statement by the economy and finance ministry (MEF).... Read More
Brazil
On 10 November Brazil’s Sergio Moro, the former judge who presided over the ‘Lava Jato’ corruption cases and a former justice minister (2019-2020) in President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, formally entered politics by affiliating himself to the right-wing Podemos (PODE) party. ... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the latest figures for the consumer price index (IPCA), which show that inflation grew 1.25% in October, the highest figure for the month since 2002.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 10 November the US embassy in Haiti’s Port-au-Prince posted an alert urging US citizens to “make plans to depart Haiti now via commercial means”.... Read More
* Costa Rica’s tourism institute (ICT), a government body, has released new figures which show that tourist arrivals to the country via air in October 2021 totalled 91,292 - 67% of the amount received in October 2019 before the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic struck.... Read More
Mexico
On 10 November Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador defended his choice of Pablo Gómez Álvarez as the new head of the government’s financial intelligence unit (UIF).... Read More
* Mexico’s chamber of deputies has approved in general terms the federal budget for 2022, with 274 votes in favour, 219 against, and three abstentions.... Read More
Southern Cone
In his first comments after the chamber of deputies voted to impeach him, Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera said on 10 November that the case against him was based on “false facts” and would be thrown out by the senate.... Read More
* Argentina’s secretary for domestic trade, Roberto Feletti, has said that the rise in ‘blue dollar’ – the local black market exchange rate for US dollars – would not impact on food or medicines prices.... Read More

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