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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 12 March 2018

From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 10 March, Brazil's leftist Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) named Guilherme Boulos from the landless movement Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Teto (MTST) as its pre-presidential candidate.... Read More
*Brazilian authorities have arrested one man for his role in a series of armed attacks which caused the death of seven people in Fortaleza, the capital of the north-eastern state of Ceará.... Read More
Development: On 11 March Chile’s former president (2010-2014) Sebastián Piñera, of the centre-right Chile Vamos coalition, took up the presidency for a second four-year term.... Read More
Argentina: Argentina’s GDP is projected to rise 2% in 2018, well below the government’s projeciton of 3.5%, according to private consultancy company Ecolatina, cited in the local media.... Read More
From Latin American Economy & Business
Many thought the ambitious 12-country Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal was dead, after President Donald Trump, citing his ‘America First’ policies, pulled the United States out of the group in January 2017.... Read More
Since taking office in December 2015 the government of Mauricio Macri has made gradual progress reducing inflation, bringing the fiscal deficit under control, and stimulating economic growth.... Read More
After around 18 months of effort the government of President Michel Temer has finally abandoned all attempts at pension reform.... Read More
A lot of comment in recent years has focused on the emergence of China as a major trade and investment player in Latin America, perhaps rivalling the traditional role played by the United States and Europe.... Read More
Anti-corruption lobby group Transparency International (TI) published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on 21 February.... Read More
Although official full-year GDP data for 2017 is not available from the central bank until late March, the authorities have given preliminary indications of the results, suggesting a slight acceleration from 2016, but with the overall pace of growth remaining weak.... Read More
The Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry held its Global Business Forum on Latin America in late February – a two-day annual conference first staged in 2016 that is designed to deepen commercial and investment ties between Dubai and Latin America.... Read More
Boeing finding a way to do Embraer deal: According to reports in the Brazilian press, giant US aerospace company Boeing may be making progress in its attempts to take over Brazil’s Embraer.... Read More

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