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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 11 May 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 10 May, Brazil's minister for public security Raul Jungmann said that the results of an investigation into the murder of Rio de Janeiro city councillor Marielle Franco from the leftist Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) and her driver Anderson Gomes would be released “soon”.... Read More
* Laerte Codonho, the head of Brazilian soft drinks company Dolly, has been arrested in the city of São Paulo for fraud.... Read More
Development: On 10 May opposition legislators in Chile’s national congress called on Health Minister Emilio Santelices to resign after the government’s changes to the country’s abortion protocols were declared illegal; while courts admitted a formal malfeasance of public funds complaint affecting Finance Minister Felipe Larraín.... Read More
Uruguay: Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has said that Uruguay has made “considerable” progress in “decoupling its economy from those of its regional neighbours”.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
A sombre President Mauricio Macri appeared on national television on 8 May to make the announcement he perhaps most dreaded upon taking office in December 2015: Argentina will seek financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).... Read More
“A tragedy foretold” is the way the governor of São Paulo, Márcio França, described the collapse of a 24-story building destroyed in a fire in the city on 1 May.... Read More
Brazil’s supreme court (STF) has restricted the special legal status or ‘foro privilegiado’ previously granted to federal legislators.... Read More
The government led by President Sebastián Piñera has unveiled a new fiscal austerity plan for 2018-2021.... Read More
REGION | Trade relations between Latin America and US.... Read More
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