HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Apr.2025) — Energy, finance and project briefs as well as other from the front pages of the top newspapers across Latin America and the Caribbean during Apr. 2025 include the following:
China raising add’l tariffs to 84% on imported US products following US tariff hikes; US defense secretary Pete Hegseth floated the idea of returning US troops to Panama to “secure” the canal; Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) unloading 1 of 4 tankers that arrived in Arica, Chile, carrying fuel for Bolivia; the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic reported inflation in Mar. 2025 of 0.31%; Oldelval inaugurating a project to double Vaca Muerta oil exports; Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo saying her country would act to expand energy self-sufficiency through a number of actions like boosting natural gas and refined product production to accelerating investments in the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE); Argentina’s president Javier Milei visiting Mar-a-Lago and US president Donald Trump; Golden Arrow Resources Corporation filing the NI 43-101 technical report supporting disclosure of the 1st mineral resource estimate (MRE) for the San Pietro copper-gold-iron-cobalt project in Chile; and more.
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