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

Development: On 5 March, the former CEO of local meat processing company BRF, Pedro de Andrade Faria, was jailed along with nine others is the latest phase of ‘Operation Weak Flesh’.... Read More

* President Michel Temer has appointed Fernando Segovia as Brazil’s new attaché to the country's embasy in Rome, Italy, after he was sacked from his previous position as chief of the federal police.... Read More

Development: On 5 March, Chile's President Michelle Bachelet announced she had sent down a draft constitution to the national legislature to replace the 1980 constitution, which dates back to the military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).... Read More

Chile: The central bank (BCCh) has released new figures for the monthly economic activity index (Imacec) which show this was up by 3.9% in January compared with the same month the previous year.... Read More