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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 7 March 2018
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Development: On 5 March, Brazil’s supreme court of justice (STJ), the top appellate court, turned down a preventative habeas corpus request put forward by the defence lawyers for former president Lula da Silva.... Read More
* Swiss food company Nestlé has announced that it will be investing R$200m (US$62m) to build a Nescafé Dolce Gusto factory in Brazil's south-eastern state of Minas Gerais.... Read More
Development: On 6 March, Mario Abdo Benítez, the presidential candidate of Paraguay’s ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC), criticised the rejection by the supreme court (CSJ) of a constitutional complaint against last year’s surreptitious attempts in congress to amend the constitution to introduce presidential re-election.... Read More
Mercosur: Paraguay’s foreign minister, Eladio Loizaga, has announced that delegations from the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and Canada will begin negotiating a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) on 9 February.... Read More
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