LatinNews Daily - 27 July 2020

On 25 July, Colombia’s President Iván Duque announced the arrest of Francisco Durango Úsuga (‘Ariel’), a prominent member of the ‘Segunda Marquetalia’ guerrilla group, a dissident faction of the demobilised Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc).... Read More

* Protesters in Peru’s Espinar province, in the southern region of Cusco, have demanded compensation from British multinational mining company Glencore, to help local communities cope with the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More

On 24 July, Twitter and Facebook suspended the accounts of sixteen prominent allies of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, following a supreme court (STF) ruling that they had been using the social media platforms to disseminate ‘fake news’ and threats against the court.... Read More

* Rubem Novaes, the CEO of state-owned bank Banco do Brasil, has announced his resignation, effective in August.... Read More

On 24 July eight members of Haiti’s nine-member provisional electoral council (CEP) announced their resignations.... Read More

* Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo has announced that Panama has pulled out of hosting the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2022 due to the economic impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More

On 24 July Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for the allegations that Mexican legislators were paid bribes to approve the 2012-2013 energy sector reform to be fully cleared up.... Read More

* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released the latest figures for the country’s economic activity index (Igae), which fell by 21.6% in May compared with the same month in 2019, due to the effects of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More

On 24 July Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera ratified the pension withdrawal law pushed through congress by the opposition and rebel deputies and senators in the ruling right-of-centre Chile Vamos coalition.... Read More

* The Argentine government has announced it will extend its programme of salary subsidies for companies in the private sector whose profits have been hit by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More

Mexico: On 22 July Mexico’s federal senate issued a statement noting that Mexican senators, agricultural organisations, producers, and federal government agencies are prepared to defend Mexico’s commercial interests if the US applies protectionist measures on seasonal agricultural products.... Read More