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LatinNews Daily - 16 August 2022
Main Briefing
On 15 August, the leader of Colombia’s Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla group, Eliécer Erlinto Chamorro (‘Antonio García’), heralded preliminary talks with President Gustavo Petro’s government as “an important step” towards a peace agreement.... Read More
Andean
* Venezuela’s central bank (BCV) has released its latest consumer price index, reporting monthly inflation of 7.5% in July.... Read More
Brazil
On 15 August, an Ipec opinion poll showed Brazil’s leftist former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2011) with a 12-percentage-point lead over President Jair Bolsonaro and a chance to win outright in the 2 October first round of the presidential election.
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* Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released the latest figures on economic activity, which increased by 0.69% in June compared to May in seasonally adjusted terms.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
On 15 August Guillermo Gallegos, a national deputy for El Salvador’s Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional (Gana) party, defended the state of emergency ordered by President Nayib Bukele’s government in late March in response to gang violence.... Read More
* Honduras’s central bank (BCH) has released new figures which show that remittances sent to Honduras in the first seven months of 2022 totalled US$4.91bn, up 19.6% on the same period in 2021.... Read More
Mexico
On 15 August Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sought to downplay the recent violence which has rocked the country.... Read More
* Mexico and Canada have opened talks to discuss closer economic ties in the form of the High-Level Economic Dialogue Mexico-Canada (DEAN Mex-Can).... Read More
Southern Cone
On 15 August Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega launched a fierce attack on Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández over an Iranian-Venezuelan cargo plane that has been grounded in Argentina since June.... Read More
* Uruguay’s agriculture, livestock, and fisheries minister Fernando Mattos has hailed the first import of Brazilian bone-in meat following an agreement signed in June by both countries with the aim of reducing prices for consumers in Uruguay amid rising inflation, which in July was running at an annual rate of 9.56%.... Read More
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- COLOMBIA: Optimism following preliminary talks with ELN
- In brief: Inflation slows in Venezuela
- BRAZIL: Lula holds ground in latest poll
- In brief: Economic activity rises in Brazil
- EL SALVADOR: Gov’t ally defends state of emergency
- In brief: Remittances to Honduras surge
- MEXICO: López Obrador downplays security concerns
- In brief: Mexico and Canada open talks to discuss closer economic ties
- ARGENTINA: Ortega blasts Fernández over cargo plane
- In brief: Uruguay hails first import of Brazilian bone-in meat