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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 27 June 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 26 June, US Vice President Michael Pence paid an official visit to Brasília, where he called on Brazil to do more to deal with Latin America’s migrants.... Read More
*The Agencia Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (Aneel), Brazil’s electricity sector regulator, has approved the takeover of energy company Eletropaulo by Italian firm Enel.... Read More
Development: On 26 June Uruguay’s interior minister, Eduardo Bonomi, met the council of mayors to discuss ways in which to address deteriorating public security.... Read More
Argentina: Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released figures which show that economic activity in Argentina contracted by 0.9% in the month of April compared with the same month in 2017.... Read More
From Latin American Security & Strategic Review
One way of judging the safety of a place is to ask the local residents how comfortable they feel about going out for a walk at night on their own.... Read More
It has been evident for a number of months now, and has been confirmed again by the latest opinion polls: there is a distinct possibility that Brazil’s next president could be Jair Bolsonaro, a representative of the extreme right, and an exponent of knee-jerk, hard-line, law-and-order policies.... Read More
Blessed with strong institutions and low crime rates, Uruguay is among the least violent countries in Latin America.... Read More
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