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LatinNews Daily - 05 January 2022
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On 4 January, Peru’s attorney general’s office (AG) confirmed that it had opened a preliminary investigation into President Pedro Castillo but said that this would be suspended until the conclusion of his presidential term in 2026.... Read More
Andean
* Ecuador’s central bank (BCE) has published the latest GDP figures, calculating that the country’s economy expanded by 5.6% in Q3 2021 compared to the same quarter in 2020.... Read More
Brazil
On 4 January, the mayor of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro city, Eduardo Paes, announced that the “street carnival in the shape that existed until 2020 will not happen in 2022”. ... Read More
* Brazil’s state-owned oil firm Petrobras has announced that it plans to produce a further 20bn barrels of oil equivalent (boe) by 2030 thanks to its programme destined to increase the yield of the company’s existing oil deposits, known as RES20.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 4 January US authorities charged Mario Antonio Palacios, a Colombian national, with conspiracy to murder or kidnap Haiti’s former president Jovenel Moïse (2017-2021).... Read More
* El Salvador’s Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya has said that the government led by President Nayib Bukele, which last year implemented legislation making the cryptocurrency bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador, plans to issue US$1bn of bitcoin bonds “between February and March of this year”.... Read More
Mexico
On 4 January, the Mexican media published a photo of Morelos state governor Cuauhtémoc Blanco, a member of the federally ruling Juntos Haremos Historia coalition, apparently meeting with alleged leaders of drug-trafficking organisations (DTOs). ... Read More
* Mexico’s finance ministry (SHCP) has announced that it has placed two new benchmark bonds on the global market for a total amount of US$5.8bn due to mature in 12 and 30 years.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 4 January environmental activists led protest demonstrations in Argentina’s Mar del Plata and other cities, opposing a federal government decision to give the go-ahead for offshore oil and gas exploration in areas of the Atlantic led by Norway-headquartered oil firm Equinor.... Read More
* Argentina’s economy ministry has released new figures which show that the national tax take for December 2021 totalled Ar$1.18trn (US$11.4bn), up 73.6% on December 2020.... Read More
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- In brief: El Salvador confirms plans to issue bitcoin bonds
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