LatinNews Daily - 25 January 2023

On 24 January, Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández hosted representatives from 33 countries for a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) in Buenos Aires.... Read More

On 24 January Venezuela’s national assembly approved a first reading of a bill to audit the work of NGOs in the country, raising fear of an imminent crackdown on NGO activity.... Read More

* Ecuador’s national statistics institute (INEC) has released the latest figures on unemployment and poverty, which show that the unemployment rate in December 2022 stood at 3.2% and the underemployment rate was 19.4% - down from 3.8% and 22.9% the previous month, respectively.... Read More

On 24 January, Brazil’s health ministry announced that over 1,000 Yanomami indigenous people had received emergency medical attention as part of efforts to ease the “humanitarian crisis” that allegedly led to hundreds of deaths from malnutrition and disease in the community.... Read More

* Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, has announced a rise in the price of its Gasoline A for distributors.... Read More

On 24 January the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Honduras issued a statement calling for transparency in the selection of Honduras’s new 15-member supreme court (CSJ) for the period 2023-2030.... Read More

* The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved the first review of Haiti’s Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP), an informal agreement between national authorities and IMF staff approved in June 2022 to monitor the government’s economic programme.... Read More

On 24 January Guillermo Fernández-Maldonado, the representative in Mexico for the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), called for an end to “widespread impunity” for journalists’ killings.... Read More

* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released the latest figures for the consumer price index (INPC), which shows that prices rose 0.46% in the first two weeks of January as compared to the previous two weeks.... Read More

* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released the latest figures on its monthly index of economic activity (Emae) which shows that monthly growth in November 2022 was -0.7% while in year-on-year terms economic activity was up 2.6%.... Read More