LatinNews Daily - 06 January 2022

On 5 January the president of Venezuela’s national assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, conditioned any resumption of dialogue with the opposition on various steep demands. ... Read More

* Colombia’s national statistics department (Dane) has released the latest figures for the consumer price index (IPC), showing that inflation increased by 0.73% in December compared to the previous month.... Read More

On 5 January, Márcio França, a former governor of the Brazilian state of São Paulo (2018-2019), denounced a police investigation against him for alleged corruption as political persecution.  ... Read More

* After the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro announced that street carnival celebrations would not be permitted this year over concerns with the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19), notably the omicron variant of the virus, a number of other cities have cancelled part or all of the culturally and economically significant event.... Read More

On 5 January Cuba’s representative to the United Nations (UN), Juan Antonio Quintanilla, rejected a tweet from UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor condemning the expulsion of two journalists from Cuba.... Read More

* Panama’s Vice President José Gabriel Carrizo has said that the government led by President Laurentino Cortizo assigned US$3.54bn in total to go on its response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in 2020 and 2021.... Read More

On 5 January, Mexican judicial sources confirmed to national media that the federal attorney general’s office (FGR) had requested a prison sentence of up to 39 years for Emilio Lozoya, the former director of Mexico’s state-oil company (Pemex) (2012-2016) for his alleged role in the Odebrecht corruption scandal.   ... Read More

* Mexico’s national social security institute (IMSS) has released a new report which shows that 846,416 jobs were created in the formal sector in 2021, a 4.3% increase on the previous year.... Read More

On 5 January, after an 18-hour session and nine voting rounds, Chile’s 155-member constituent convention (CC) elected María Elisa Quinteros as its new president; she will lead its effort to draft a new constitution by July.... Read More

* Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released the latest figures on the consumer price index (IPC), which show that the country registered monthly inflation of -0.10% in December.... Read More