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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 19 February 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 18 December, 18 people were taken hostage during a prison riot at the Milton Dias penitentiary in Baixada Fluminense region, Rio de Janeiro state.... Read More
* Brazil’s services sector grew for the second consecutive month by 1.3% in December 2017 from November according to Brazil’s statistics agency IBGE.... Read More
Development: On 18 February, Chile’s foreign minister Heraldo Muñoz confirmed that the government had hired a lawyer to expedite the process of seeking the extradition of Ricardo Palma Salamanca, a former member of the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez (FPMR) guerrilla group, who was arrested in France two days earlier.... Read More
Chile: A total of 30 vehicles were destroyed in arson attacks on 16 February in three communes in the southern Biobío and Araucanía regions - Los Álamos, Los Sauces, and Santa Bárbara - where the indigenous Mapuche lay claim to ancestral lands.... Read More
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