LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 1 May 2018

Development: On 30 April, Brazil’s attorney general's office (PGR) accused jailed former president Lula da Silva (2003-2011) and other senior members of the leftist opposition Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) of money laundering and corruption.... Read More

* Brazil’s unemployment rate rose to 13.1% in the first quarter of 2018, up 1.3 percentage points from the previous quarter, ending in December 2017.... Read More

Development: On 30 April Alicia Pucheta, the president of Paraguay’s supreme court (CSJ), publicly announced that she had tendered her resignation with the intention of assuming the country’s vacant vice-presidential seat.... Read More

Uruguay: Uruguay’s fiscal deficit was 3.4% of GDP in March, according to the most recent figures from the economy & finance ministry (MEF).... Read More