LatinNews Daily - 06 December 2022

On 5 December US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti for an additional 18 months, from 4 February 2023, until 3 August 2024.... Read More

On 5 December Peru’s President Pedro Castillo named retired general Emilio Bobbio Rosas as his new defence minister, following the resignation of Daniel Barragán just days before Castillo faces a third impeachment attempt.... Read More

* Colombia’s national statistics department (Dane) has published the latest consumer price index, showing that monthly inflation in November was 0.77%, bringing the annual rate to 12.53%.... Read More

On 5 December, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) in Brasília and officially invited him to visit US President Joe Biden in Washington.... Read More

* The board of Brazilian electricity company Eletrobras, which was privatised in June this year, has announced that it will propose to shareholders the incorporations of shares of its subsidiaries – Companhia Hidro Elétrica do São Franscisco (CHESF), Companhia de Geração e Transmissão de Energia Elétrica do Sul do Brasil (CGT Eletrosul), Furnas – Centrais Elétricas (Furnas), and Centrais Elétricas do Norte do Brasil (Eletronorte).... Read More

*The US ambassador in Panama, Mari Carmen Aponte, has said that the US government assigned around US$18m in 2022 for humanitarian assistance for refugees and vulnerable migrants in Panama.... Read More

On 5 December, US-based NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged legislators in Mexico to reject President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s electoral reform.... Read More

*Moody’s Local Mexico, the local platform of international credit ratings agency Moody’s, has stated that regional Mexican banks Banco Bajío (BanBajío) and Banco Regional (BanRegio) will benefit from nearshoring trends despite an adverse outlook for 2023.... Read More

On 5 December Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández delivered a national broadcast announcing that the justice ministry would request that public prosecutors investigate federal judges, among others, for involvement in a bribery scheme after the publication of leaked messages related to a trip to Lago Escondido in Patagonia in October.... Read More

*Argentina’s Economy Minister Sergio Massa has signed an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with US ambassador to Mexico Marc Stanley to facilitate the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).... Read More