Back
LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 24 July 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 23 July the NGO Global Witness published data showing that 57 land activists were murdered in Brazil in 2017.... Read More
* Brazil’s national industrial confederation (CNI), a private sector lobby, has sent a letter to the foreign ministry (Itamaraty) asking the federal government to seek closer commercial ties between the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) regional trade bloc and the rival Pacific Alliance regional trade bloc.... Read More
Development: On 23 July senators from the Frente para la Victoria (FPV, Kirchneristas) hard-line faction of Argentina’s main opposition Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists) described as “illegal” the armed forces reform plans announced by President Mauricio Macri that would allow the armed forces to assume some internal security duties.... Read More
Argentina: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised down its growth projections for Argentina in 2018 from the 2% forecast in April to just 0.4% with the economy predicted to contract in the second and third quarters of 2018.... Read More
End of preview
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options