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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 9 January 2018
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Development: On 8 January, a federal judge suspended a swearing in ceremony for Brazil's new labour minister Cristiane Brasil scheduled for later today (9 January), declaring her morally unfit for the post.... Read More
* In the midst of a public security crisis in Goiás state, the president of Brazil’s supreme court (STF), Justice Carmen Lúcia Antunes, called off a visit to the Colonia Agroindustrial prison where the new year’s riots took place due to security fears.... Read More
Development: On 8 January, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet defended the foreign policy line pursued by her government and called for it to be maintained once president-elect Sebastián Piñera assumes office on 11 March.... Read More
Paraguay: Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes has promulgated into law a bill that legalises the use and production of marijuana and marijuana derivatives for medicinal purposes.... Read More
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