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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 20 April 2018

From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 19 April the official campaigning period ahead of Paraguay’s 22 April general election closed with the two main presidential candidates holding large campaign closing rallies.... Read More
Development: On 19 April, the head of Brazil’s indigenous rights agency (Funai), Franklimberg Ribeiro de Freitas, tendered his resignation.... Read More
*The European Union (EU) has announced it will ban meat imports from 20 different production units in Brazil.... Read More
Chile: Chile’s university student organisation Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile (Confech) has held its first national demonstration under the new right-of-centre Chile Vamos coalition government led by President Sebastián Piñera, which took office last month.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
The two-day Summit of the Americas (SOA), hosted by Peru on 13 and 14 April, resulted in the ‘Lima Commitment’, a 57-point statement on combating corruption and strengthening democracy.... Read More
President Michel Temer has been forced to replace half of his cabinet.... Read More
With six months to go, there is still no clear favourite to win Brazil’s presidential elections.... Read More
Argentine trade unions, civil-society groups, and even small business organisations have renewed their mobilisations in rejection of the ‘economic adjustment’ being implemented by the government led by President Mauricio Macri.... Read More
BRAZIL | Indigence increasing.... Read More

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