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Venezuela’s new leader confident US will protect assets
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Peru elections could take place later this year
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New US immigration rules reduce traffic on Darien Gap
Jan. 27 (Reuters) – Today’s Latin American political update:
Mexico “fully supports” Pemex debt service
MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government will provide more support to state oil company Pemex with a plan to ensure payments on pending bonds expiring this year are made, the president said, citing top leftist officials. He highlighted one of his priorities.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at a press conference that Pemex’s debt has been paid on time with government assistance and that the finance ministry and Pemex’s leadership are scheduling payments this year. Stated.
Lopez Obrador said the government would continue to reduce Pemex’s tax burden alongside other measures, and said the ministry would soon explain how the debt payments would be made.
Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Expect Asset Protection
MADRID – The new president of Venezuela’s opposition parliament is confident the U.S. will support parliament by continuing to protect foreign assets like oil refiner Citogo Petroleum from creditors, she said.
Earlier this month, as the opposition prepared to pick its presidential candidate and pushed for a resumption of talks with the ruling socialists, he was elected the opposition parliamentary speaker.
Figuera, who is in exile in Spain, said in an interview with Reuters that the new triumvirate of women leaders in Congress will stand up to President Nicolas Maduro, whom the United States and other countries see as a dictator, and will have to pay Citogo or about $2. said it was able to protect the assets of $1 billion in gold from her creditors to the Bank of England.
Peru elections could be rolled over to this year, president says
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has said she is considering postponing the general elections later this year.
Congress is set to debate a proposal to move up the national election from 2026 to April 2024 later on Friday, but several lawmakers have proposed moving the election even earlier to the second half of 2023.
Bolarte was sworn in as president in December after his predecessor, Pedro Castillo, tried to illegally dissolve Congress, and was subsequently deposed and imprisoned.
New US immigration rules reduce traffic on Darien Gap
BRASILIA – Since the US government tightened rules on immigration, the number of people crossing the dangerous Darien Gap jungle between Colombia and Panama to the US has dropped significantly, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. Stated. .
Earlier this month, Washington expanded COVID-19 pandemic-era restrictions to deport Venezuelans, as well as immigrants from Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua, to Mexico if they were found crossing the border into the United States. We have included people who may be This limit is known as Title 42. (Edited by David Alire Garcia, edited by Kenneth Maxwell)
