LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 22 February 2018

Development: On 21 February an estimated 85,000 people took part in a march in central Buenos Aires organised by Hugo Moyano, arguably Argentina’s most powerful trade union leader of the last 30 years, against the government led by President Mauricio Macri.... Read More

Development: On 21 February, the spokesperson for President Michel Temer, Alexandre Parola, said the federal intervention to put the military in charge of security forces in the state of Rio de Janeiro was not politically motivated.... Read More

Within the next few weeks, the federal government will relocate 530 Venezuelan immigrants currently in Brazil’s northern state of Roraima.... Read More

Uruguay: Uruguay’s national colonisation institute (INC), which is responsible for the granting of land by the state, has announced that dairy producers will be exempt from an increase of nearly 14% in the cost of rent, while other agriculture producers will see a drop of between 4.5% and 6% in their rent from April.... Read More

Now the heady days of carnival are over, political activity has regained momentum.... Read More

Brazil’s electoral court (TSE) has launched a special task force comprising the intelligence services, army, and police to crack down on ‘fake news’ ahead of the October general election.... Read More

Brazil’s securities regulator, the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM), ruled that fund managers registered in the country cannot trade using ‘directly acquired’ Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies because they “do not qualify as financial assets”.... Read More

Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet will finish her final term with lacklustre approval ratings after her centre-left Nueva Mayoría (NM) coalition lost the 2017 general election.... Read More

Confronting Chile’s violent past has been a priority for the outgoing administration led by President Michelle Bachelet, who leaves behind a positive legacy for human rights advocacy.... Read More

The executive, legislative and judicial branches in Argentina return from their break in the first weeks of each year to pick up and try to make sense of the pieces of the national agenda left scattered following a flurry of activity in December.... Read More

When she got married, Pandora received a small box as a wedding gift, containing all the evils of the world, goes the Greek myth.... Read More

The ruling Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) is divided into two main camps.... Read More

Uruguay: Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez has announced a number of tax reductions for the agricultural sector, at a meeting between government authorities, rural associations, and agricultural producers at the headquarters of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries.... Read More