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LatinNews Daily - 03 December 2021

MAIN BRIEFING
On 2 December, Peru’s Attorney General Zoraida Ávalos summoned President Pedro Castillo to testify on alleged influence peddling in the military.... Read More
ANDEAN
* Bolivia’s President Luis Arce has inaugurated the Centro de Investigación en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales y Recursos Evaporíticos – a research centre which the government says will accelerate the industrialisation of lithium extraction in Bolivia.... Read More
BRAZIL
On 2 December, Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) released figures showing that the country’s economy has entered a technical recession, after GDP contracted by 0.1% in the third quarter. ... Read More
* The Brazilian senate has approved an executive decree which creates the Auxílio Brasil social benefit, with which the government led by President Jair Bolsonaro will substitute the two decades-old Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer programme.... Read More
CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
A total of US$9.9m was seized in a drug raid, the largest cash amount ever impounded, Panama’s office of the public prosecutor (MP) said on 2 December, adding that it was part of a wider operation against the Clan del Golfo, the Colombia-based drug trafficking organisation (DTO), also known as the Urabeños.... Read More
* Nicaragua’s central bank (BCN) has released the latest figures on the balance of trade, which show that the country’s trade deficit reached US$468.3m in Q3 2021 – a 356% increase on the same quarter in 2020.... Read More
MEXICO
On 2 December, Mexican and US authorities announced that they had reached an agreement to reinstate the migrant protection protocol (MPP), also known as the ‘Remain in Mexico’ programme, a controversial programme from the Donald Trump administration (2017-2021) which requires migrants who are seeking asylum in the US to wait in Mexico while their application is being processed. ... Read More
* The Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana (Coparmex), one of Mexico’s leading private sector lobbies, has issued a statement expressing concern at “possible discrimination” in the US against Mexican car exports.... Read More
SOUTHERN CONE
Politicians and environmental lobby groups expressed concern on 2 December over the murder of Javiera Rojas, a 43-year-old activist who had opposed hydroelectric projects in northern Chile.... Read More
* The union of Uruguayan exporters (UEU) has announced that exports totalled US$950m in November – a 50.7% increase on the same month in 2020.... Read More

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