Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2025

This June edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone begins with a look at the cooperation agreements between China and South American countries including Brazil and Chile, the presidents of which travelled to Beijing in May.... Read More

Three South American heads of state flocked to Beijing in May for what is usually a ministerial-level forum between China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, and Chile’s President Gabriel Boric.... Read More

The debut of the Brazilian food processing giant JBS on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is an historic achievement for the world’s largest meat packer, but it also renews questions over its troubled past and its commitment to set things right.... Read More

From the point of view of the São Paulo state government, the central zone of the state capital is an area rife with crime, homelessness, and drug addiction.... Read More

Officials from the justice & public security ministry have rejected a request from the US government to classify Brazil’s two most powerful criminal organisations, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and the Comando Vermelho (CV), as terrorist groups.... Read More

President Gabriel Boric has endorsed a report from the presidential commission for peace and understanding, which proposed a roadmap to resolve the long-standing indigenous Mapuche conflict in southern Chile.... Read More

President Javier Milei has issued a decree of necessity and urgency (DNU) to tighten Argentina’s migration laws.... Read More

Intentionally or not, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave Paraguay a massive plug during his testimony before a US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in May, advertising the country’s huge potential surplus electricity supplies from the Itaipú hydroelectric dam, that would be ideal to set up energy-intensive service providers for artificial intelligence (AI).... Read More

Uruguay, which had long prided itself on being one of the most equitable and prosperous countries in Latin America, delved into collective soul-searching when the rate of poverty began rising in recent years.... Read More

BRAZIL | Brazilian airline Azul files for bankruptcy.... Read More