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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 02 March 2018

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Development: On 1 March, the head of Venezuela’s national electoral council (CNE), Tibisay Lucena, announced that presidential elections would be put back to 20 May.... Read More
Development: On 1 March, Brazil’s ministry for industry and foreign commerce (MDIC) said the government was “extremely concerned” about a decision by the US to impose heavy tariffs on foreign steel and aluminium imports next week.... Read More
* Brazil’s ministry for industry and foreign commerce (MDIC) reported that Brazil registered a trade surplus of US$4.91bn in February.... Read More
Development: On 1 March, President Mauricio Macri reopened congress by promising a return to economic growth and saying the “worst was over”.... Read More
Paraguay: The finance ministry has announced that a Paraguayan government delegation will be travelling to the US next week to drum up interest there for the planned issue of US$500m of bonds in international financial markets.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Brazil’s President Michel Temer is armed with a new political strategy.... Read More
The official campaigning period ahead of Paraguay’s 22 April presidential and congressional elections has yet to begin, but the political opposition has already presented legal challenges against two prominent candidates from the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC).... Read More
President Tabaré Vázquez has come under intense public scrutiny over allegations that he may have engaged in nepotism.... Read More
An Argentine suggestion of reciprocity covering the health costs incurred by Argentine citizens in Bolivia, and by Bolivian citizens in Argentina, was initially rejected by La Paz, but is now likely to go ahead.... Read More
Chile’s President-elect Sebastián Piñera, who is due to assume office on 11 March, continued with the process of forming his government by appointing regional governors (intendentes) for the country’s soon to be 16 regions (see sidebar) on 26 February.... Read More
ARGENTINA | Construction drives growth.... Read More
Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet visited Japan from 22 to 26 February, her last official visit before she hands over power to Sebastián Piñera on 11 March.... Read More

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