LatinNews Daily - 17 January 2022

On 16 January hundreds of people took to the streets in El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the signing of the peace accords ending the 1980-1992 civil war and to protest against the Nuevas Ideas (NI) government led by President Nayib Bukele.... Read More

On 16 January, Colombia’s President Iván Duque announced the launch of a “major operation” against the money laundering activities of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla group.... Read More

* Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has announced that in 2021 Venezuela’s poverty rate fell from 18.4% to 17.7%, and that extreme poverty affected 4.1% of the population.... Read More

On 14 January, the Brazilian state of São Paulo kicked off the vaccination against the coronavirus (Covid-19) of children aged five to 11 with a ceremony in which eight-year-old Davi Seremramiwe Xavante, an indigenous child who is in São Paulo for medical treatment, received the jab. ... Read More

* Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has announced that it has met its 2021 production target and that it is trimming its target for 2022.... Read More

* The Dominican Republic’s central bank (BCRD) has released the latest figures on inflation which show that monthly inflation for December 2021 was 0.73%, while the year-on-year rate was 8.50%.... Read More

On 15 January, Mexico’s federal health ministry (SSA) reported that 47,113 new coronavirus (Covid-19) cases had been registered in the country in the previous 24 hours, the highest figure since the beginning of the pandemic.... Read More

* Mexico’s agriculture and rural development ministry (Sader) has reported that the country’s agri-food exports totalled US$40.29bn in the first 11 months of 2021, the highest figure recorded in the past 29 years.... Read More

On 14 January Chile’s judiciary suspended a controversial tender process organised by the energy and mines ministry to extract 160,000 tonnes of lithium.... Read More

* Argentina’s economy minister, Martín Guzmán, and secretary for domestic trade, Roberto Feletti, have held a meeting with representatives from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to discuss the ‘Precios Cuidados’ price control programme, which was expanded on 13 January to cover 1,321 products.... Read More

Cuba: On 6 January the US State Department announced visa restrictions on eight Cuban officials who it said were “implicated in attempts to silence the voices of the Cuban people through repression, unjust detentions, and harsh prison sentences” in relation to the 11 July 2021 anti-government protests.... Read More