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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 19 March 2018
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Development: On 17 March, Paraguay’s political opposition and civil-society groups expressed their repudiation of a new constitutional reform bill approved by the national congress, which seeks to make it more difficult for national legislators to be impeached. ... Read More
Development: On 17 March, Brazil’s state-owned postal service firm, Correios, denied that the bullets used to kill Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councillor and human rights activist, had been stolen from one of its offices.... Read More
* Romário de Souza, the former Brazilian football star who is currently a federal senator for the centrist Podemos (PODE) party, has announced his bid to become governor of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state ahead of the October general election.... Read More
Argentina: Argentina’s head of the cabinet, Marcos Peña, and treasury minister Nicolás Dujovne have signed an agreement to increase the state budget for 2018 which the local news website Infobae estimates will result in a budget deficit of over Ar$1.4bn (US$69m).... Read More
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