LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 03 July 2018

Development: With Brazil’s traditional politics in a state of disarray, most of the country’s political parties are pushing back the conventions that will formalise their candidates for the 7 October general election until the very last minute.... Read More

*The Brazilian government has announced that it will include 14 new projects in its planned public tender processes for this year.... Read More

Development: On 2 July two forestry machines were burned in arson attacks which took place in Carahue commune, in Chile’s southern impoverished La Araucanía region, long the site of unrest stemming from indigenous Mapuche claims to ancestral land.... Read More

Uruguay: Uruguay XXI, Uruguay’s official exports and investment promotion agency, has revealed that in the first six months of the year the country’s exports amounted to US$4.63bn, equivalent to a 2.3% increase compared with exports during the same period of 2017.... Read More