Purchase of Own Securities

Morgan Grenfell Lat Amer Co Tst PLC
28 January 2000


The  Board  of  the  Morgan Grenfell Latin American  Companies Trust  PLC
announces that the Company has today purchased  for cancellation 100,000
ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 79.0p per share.

Following  this  purchase  there are now  61,376,050  ordinary shares in
issue.


Mark Pope
Assistant Company Secretary