LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 6 February 2018

Development: On 5 February, São Paulo state judge Manoel de Queiroz Pereira Calças admitted that judges were receiving housing benefits as a kind of “indirect salary” in addition to their wage.... Read More

* Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has been fined by the national environmental regulator Ibama.... Read More

Development: On 5 February, the Paraguayan authorities confirmed that two Mennonites who had been abducted by the insurgent Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP) criminal organisation last year had been released and safely made their way back to their community in Paraguay’s northern San Pedro department.... Read More

Argentina: The Argentine association of automobile manufacturers (Adefa) has reported that the country exported 10,409 automobiles in January, a 6.7% year-on-year increase.  The January automobile export figure is 42.8% lower than that registered in December 2017 but Adefa notes that January is traditionally a slow month for the sector as production levels are reduced due to the summer holidays and a lag in updating production lines to assemble new automobile models.... Read More