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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 28 June 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: Brazil’s federal congress delayed until 3 July a vote to fast-track two key energy bills that could have raised over R$100bn (US$26.1bn) for the cash-strapped federal government.
Significance: There’s increasingly little chance that the legislature will pass anything before congressional recess begins in mid-July.... Read More
*Brazil’s President Michel Temer has announced that the country has formally ratified the 2013 Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).... Read More
Development: On 27 June Chile’s supreme court sentenced former police agents from the disbanded national intelligence directorate (Dina), Chile’s secret police under the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), and a retired military officer for their responsibility in the crimes of qualified kidnapping and homicide, respectively.... Read More
Argentina: Marcos Peña, Argentina’s cabinet chief, has said that the negative impact of the current drought which has been afflicting the country has led the government to revise down its economic growth estimate for 2018 by one percentage point to 1%-2%.... Read More
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