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LatinNews Daily - 14 March 2022
Main Briefing
Preliminary results from Colombia’s 13 March legislative elections point to a fragmented congress that will pose difficulties for the three presidential candidates that won primaries on the same day ahead of the 29 May presidential first round.... Read More
Andean
* Ecuador’s state-owned oil company, Petroecuador, has announced that it is seeking US$12bn in investments to fund its planned doubling of oil production by 2026.... Read More
BRAZIL
On 11 March, Brazil’s Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe), a government body, released preliminary figures showing that Amazon deforestation soared to a new record in February. ... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the latest figures for inflation, which show that the consumer price index (IPCA) increased 1.01% in February, following on from 0.54% inflation in January.... Read More
CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
On 11 March a Nicaraguan judge convicted Cristiana Chamorro, a potential November 2021 presidential contender, of money laundering and other crimes.... Read More
*International credit ratings agency Fitch has revised up Costa Rica’s outlook to stable from negative.... Read More
MEXICO
On 11 March, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shared a letter he had penned to the European Parliament, in which he accused its members of “corruption, lies and hypocrisy” over concerns they had voiced around the treatment of journalists in Mexico.... Read More
*Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures for its monthly index of industrial activity (Imai), which show that industrial production rose 4.3% in January 2022 as compared to January 2021.... Read More
SOUTHERN CONE
On 11 March Gabriel Boric was inaugurated as Chile’s 34th head of state, the youngest president in the country’s history.... Read More
*Argentina’s government led by President Alberto Fernández has announced the suspension of export registrations of soybean oil, soymeal and other related products, a move which comes ahead of the 2021/2022 harvest in the country which is the world’s top exporter of processed soy products.... Read More
Washington Watch
Colombia: On 10 March, Colombia’s President Iván Duque met US President Joe Biden in Washington.... Read More
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