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LatinNews Daily - 29 March 2023

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On 28 March Peru’s attorney general’s office announced that it has expanded its investigations into President Dina Boluarte and her predecessor, Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), to include illegal political donations, money laundering, and criminal organisation.... Read More
Andean
* Colombia’s Finance Minister José Antonio Ocampo has announced a new scheme to provide credit to citizens who do not have access to formal financing mechanisms.... Read More
Brazil
On 28 March, local media reported that the ethics commission of Brazil’s government has launched an official investigation into the alleged corruption of Juscelino Filho, the communications minister of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.... Read More
* The monetary policy committee (Copom) of Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released the minutes to its latest meeting, in which it discussed the rationale behind its recent decision to maintain high interest rates but also adopted a more approving tone in its assessment of the fiscal plan being pushed by Finance Minister Fernando Haddad, which is due to be presented by the government and then put to a vote by congress.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
 On 28 March dozens of relatives of prisoners detained under the state of emergency implemented by El Salvador’s government led by President Nayib Bukele to tackle gang violence, staged protests in the capital, San Salvador.... Read More
* Panama’s economy & finance (MEF) minister Héctor Alexander has presented a report to the national assembly highlighting that the country has “overcome the economic effects caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in a complex international context, marked by the war in Ukraine, global price increases and the adverse economic effects stemming from the pandemic in various countries”.... Read More
Mexico
On 28 March, Mexico’s national migration institute (INM) confirmed that 38 migrants had died in a fire that broke out the previous day at one of its facilities in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state.... Read More
*Mexico’s tourism (Sectur) minister, Miguel Torruco Marqués, has met other top tourism officials from countries comprising Mundo Maya (the broad description given to countries in the isthmus which were once part of the Mayan empire), at the Tianguis Turístico annual international tourism trade fair taking place in Mexico City (CDMX).... Read More
Southern Cone
On 28 March, Chile’s federal lower chamber congress approved five initiatives aimed at strengthening security legislation, as part of a push to fast-track security-related measures.... Read More
*Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has published new figures which show that Argentina’s external debt totalled US$276.7bn in the fourth quarter of 2022, up US$3.9bn on the previous quarter.... Read More

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