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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 20 June 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 19 June, representatives of some of Brazil’s major banks called on former finance minister Henrique Meirelles (2016-April 2018) to drop out of the race for the presidency.... Read More
* According to local media, Odebrecht, the Brazilian engineering company which has been involved in an international government corruption scandal affecting 10 countries in Latin America and Africa, has agreed to pay R$7m (US$1.8m) to the authorities in the city of São Paulo after a fraud investigation.... Read More
Development: On 19 June, Argentina’s truck drivers’ union, the Federación Nacional de Trabajadores Camioneros (Fedcam), called off a 48-hour strike scheduled for next week after striking a salary deal with the sector’s employers’ federation.... Read More
Argentina: The national statistics institute (Indec) has released new figures which show that in the first quarter of 2018 Argentina’s GDP increased by 3.6% relative to the same period of 2017.... Read More
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