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LatinNews Daily - 24 January 2022
Main Briefing
On 23 January legislators from the leftist Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre), the party of Honduras’s president-elect Xiomara Castro, elected Luis Redondo as the new president of congress while in a separate session Libre rebels elected another congressional directorate headed up by Jorge Cálix.... Read More
Andean
On 22 January, Roberto Picón, an opposition-affiliated rector on Venezuela’s national electoral council (CNE), warned that the process for the collection of signatures to trigger a recall referendum on President Nicolás Maduro’s leadership “is not viable”.... Read More
* Colombia’s President Iván Duque has inaugurated the country’s largest windfarm, Parque Eólica Guajira 1, in Uribia municipality in the remote northern department of La Guajira.... Read More
Brazil
On 23 January, the seven-day rolling average of known new coronavirus (Covid-19) infections hit a new record for the sixth consecutive day in Brazil, reaching 146,468 new daily cases. ... Read More
* Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has sanctioned the 2022 budget, which plans for R$4.7trn (US$862bn) in expenditures, of which R$1.9trn are destined to servicing public debt.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
* Nicaragua’s central bank (BCN) has released its latest monthly economic activity index (Imae) for November 2021 which showed a 13.2% increase compared with November 2020, bringing the accumulated rate to 10.1%.... Read More
Mexico
On 23 January, Mexico’s national migration institute (INM) announced it had intercepted over 3,000 migrants in the past 48 hours.... Read More
* US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has stated that she repeatedly conveyed the “real concerns” that the US government has regarding Mexico’s proposed electricity sector reform in her recent visit to Mexico.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 21 January Chile’s President-elect Gabriel Boric named his full ministerial cabinet at an event in the natural history museum in Santiago.... Read More
* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released the latest figures on exports, which totalled US$77.93bn in 2021, representing a 42.0% increase on the 2020 total.... Read More
Washington Watch
Argentina: On 18 January US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met that day with Argentina’s Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero to discuss “our important bilateral relationship”.... Read More
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- HONDURAS: Political crisis erupts as rival congress presidents elected
- VENEZUELA: CNE accused of obstructing recall referendum
- In brief: First of many wind farms completed in Colombia’s La Guajira
- BRAZIL: Omicron bites
- In brief: Bolsonaro sanctions Brazil’s budget
- In brief: Nicaragua’s economy continues to recover
- MEXICO: Authorities intercept 3,000 migrants in two days
- In brief: US raises more concerns over Mexico energy reform
- CHILE: Boric names historic cabinet
- In brief: Argentina’s exports rise
- Blinken meets Argentina’s Cafiero