LatinNews Daily - 28 March 2023

On 27 March presidential candidates officially launched their campaigns in Guatemala ahead of the 25 June general elections.... Read More

On 27 March a US delegation arrived in Colombia for the 10th High Level Dialogue between the two countries.... Read More

* Bolivia’s Zenón Mamani, a deputy finance minister, has announced that the tax take in 2022 totalled B$58.67bn (US$8.49bn), representing a 20% increase on 2021.... Read More

On 27 March, the government of Brazil’s south-eastern state of São Paulo announced that a teacher in the state capital had died from a knife attack by a pupil.... Read More

* Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released figures on the country’s current account deficit for February, which was at US$2.8bn, down from US$4.2bn in February 2022.... Read More

* Costa Rica has issued US$1.5bn worth of bonds on international markets.... Read More

At least ten people have died after a fire broke out at a migrant facility in Mexico’s Chihuahua state on 27 March, according to local and international press reports.... Read More

* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show that the country registered a trade deficit of US$1.84bn in February, compared to a surplus of US$1.29bn in the same month of 2022.... Read More

On 27 March Chile’s Interior Minister Carolina Tohá announced an agreement with opposition parties in congress to achieve “express” approval for around 15 measures to strengthen existing security legislation, following the death on 25 March of a military police officer in a clash with criminals.   ... Read More

* Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released a new report estimating that the percentage of the population living under the poverty line in the second half of 2022 was 9.1%.... Read More