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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 18 April 2018

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Brazil’s Aécio Neves to stand trial for corruption

Development: On 17 April, justices in Brazil’s supreme court (STF) said that Senator Aécio Neves from the centre-right opposition Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) should stand trial for corruption.... Read More

In brief: Brazil

* A supreme court judge has given Brazil's federal government 30 days to respond to a request from the Roraima state government to temporarily close the border with Venezuela.... Read More

Political tension rises in Paraguay ahead of vote

Development: On 17 April, the presidential candidate of Paraguay’s Alianza Ganar opposition electoral alliance, Efraín Alegre, accused President Horacio Cartes of being a “smuggler” and the presidential candidate of the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana- Partido Colorado (ANR-PC), Mario ‘Marito’ Abdo Benítez, of being Cartes’ “puppet”.... Read More

In brief: Paraguay

Paraguay: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised up its 2018 GDP growth projection for Paraguay.... Read More

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