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LatinNews Daily - 18 January 2022
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On 17 January, Venezuela’s national electoral council (CNE) announced that it had approved three requests that could trigger a recall referendum on the leadership of President Nicolás Maduro.... Read More
Andean
* Colombia’s national statistics department (Dane) has announced that imports totalled US$6.54bn in November 2021, representing a 56.3% increase on the same month in 2020.... Read More
Brazil
On 17 January, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro accused social media platforms of exercising a “dictatorial power” to control people and favouring the Left. ... Read More
* Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released the latest figures for the monthly index of economic activity (IBC-Br), which saw a positive variation in November 2021 after three consecutive months of negative performance.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 17 January Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry urged Haitians to “put aside their immediate partisan differences”, adding that there is no “legal or constitutional mechanism for choosing a legitimate provisional president”.... Read More
* Panama’s government led by President Laurentino Cortizo has announced an agreement with Minera Panamá, the local subsidiary of Canadian mining firm First Quantum, to increase royalty payments at Cobre Panamá, Panama’s largest copper mine which is owned by First Quantum.... Read More
Mexico
On 17 January, Mexican photojournalist Magarito Martínez Esquivel was shot dead in Tijuana (Baja California state), the second journalist to be killed in Mexico so far this year. ... Read More
* International credit ratings agencies Moody’s, Fitch Ratings and Standard and Poor’s (S&P) have reacted to the uncertainty generated by the planned exit of US multinational investment bank and financial services corporation Citigroup Inc from consumer banking in Mexico.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 17 January Axel Kicillof, the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, met President Alberto Fernández to discuss political and economic developments, including the progress of the current negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to restructure Argentina’s debt and avert a default.... Read More
*Mexico-based oil firm Vista Oil & Gas has announced that it is acquiring 50% of German oil firm Wintershall Dea’s stake in two concessions in Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas fields, ‘Aguada Federal’ and ‘Bandurria Norte’ for a total of US$140m.... Read More
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- VENEZUELA: CNE approves requests to begin recall referendum proceedings
- In brief: Imports greatly exceed pre-pandemic levels in Colombia
- BRAZIL: Bolsonaro criticises ‘dictatorial’ social media
- In brief: Brazil’s economic activity picks up
- HAITI: Henry urges unity amid leadership challenges
- In brief: Panama mining firm agrees to rise in royalties
- MEXICO: Second journalist killed in 2022
- In brief: Credit rating agencies react to Citigroup’s exit from Mexico
- ARGENTINA: Kicillof blasts IMF
- In brief: Mexican firm acquires new concessions in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta