LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 13 April 2018

Development: On 12 April, an investigative report by Brazilian daily, Folha de São Paulo, found that President Michel Temer’s daughter Maristela may have used bribes from meatpacking firm JBS to develop her property.... Read More

* The US’s Boeing and Brazil’s Embraer are edging closer to a merger deal, according to Brazil’s defence minister Joaquim Silva e Luna.... Read More

Development: On 12 April, thousands of people took part in a protest march in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, in demand for a more “transparent and efficient” judicial system.... Read More

* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has reported that monthly inflation in March was 2.3% and that the cumulative inflation for the first quarter was 6.7%.... Read More

Following a telenovela-style build-up, Brazil’s former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) handed himself over to police this week to face 12 years in jail.... Read More

The opposing factions of Paraguay’s ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) appear to have rediscovered the unity that has eluded the party in the last five years just in time for the general election on 22 April.... Read More

Argentina’s judiciary has ordered an intervention in the Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists), the country’s main opposition party.... Read More

President Sebastián Piñera has announced a new working table to address security – a major public concern.... Read More

ARGENTINA | Automotive production.... Read More