Brazil & Southern Cone - July 2018 (ISSN 1741-4431)

The July edition of the Regional Report: Brazil and Southern Cone explores the more immediate political and economic challenges faced by some countries in the sub-region.... Read More

At Raid, a mountaineering shop in San Carlos de Bariloche, a town in Argentina’s Patagonia, Paula Navarro has seen too much volatility for her liking in her 15 years running the business, and this year is no different.... Read More

Brazil’s 7 October general election could become one of the most unpredictable since the late 1980s.... Read More

In the last four years Chile has seen the number of immigrants arriving double.... Read More

Paraguay’s newly elected national congress was formally sworn-in on 30 June.... Read More

Fiscal deficit target: On 6 June Chile’s Finance Minister Felipe Larraín announced that the right-of-centre Chile Vamos coalition government led by President Sebastián Piñera will commit to lowering the structural fiscal deficit by 0.2% of GDP per year which will reduce it from its current 2% of GDP to 1% of GDP by 2022.... Read More