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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 05 April 2018
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Development: During the early hours of 5 April, the majority of Brazil's supreme court (STF) justices rejected former president Lula da Silva’s (2003-2011) plea to remain a free man while he appeals a corruption conviction.... Read More
*Mining company Anglo American has been fined R$125.6m (US$37.7m) by the environmental regulator of Brazil's Minas Gerais state for a spill from a broken iron ore pipeline running between Minas Gerias and Rio de Janeiro.... Read More
Development: On 4 April Paraguay’s chamber of deputies voted in favour of approving the partial veto issued by President Horacio Cartes against a recently approved political reform bill.... Read More
Chile: Chile’s new finance minister, Felipe Larraín, has announced a new fiscal austerity plan to be applied to ministries, governors, and intendencies which seeks to save US$122m a year – or some US$500m in four years – with the savings to be used to finance social programmes.... Read More
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