LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 27 July 2018

Development: On 26 July thousands of people took part in a protest march in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, in rejection of the two recent decrees issued by President Mauricio Macri aimed at reforming the role of the armed forces by assigning them more public security duties.... Read More

Development: On 26 July the national confidence index (INC) complied by the Associação Comercial de São Paulo (ACSP) business association showed a rise in consumer confidence in all regions of Brazil.... Read More

* Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has reported that the country posted a current account deficit of US$3.58bn with the rest of the world in the first semester of the year.... Read More

Chile: Moody’s Investors Service, the international credit ratings agency, has downgraded Chile’s sovereign credit rating from ‘Aa3’ to ‘A1’ to reflect “a gradual but broad-based deterioration in Chile’s credit profile”.... Read More

Party conference season is underway in Brazil (it will run to 5 August) and this year it is all about nominating presidential candidates for the elections due on 7 October.... Read More

The Pacific Alliance countries (Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico) held a summit meeting on 23 and 24 July in Puerto Vallarta in Mexico, to which the leaders of the Mercosur bloc (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) were invited.... Read More

Already on the defensive because of a troubled economy, President Mauricio Macri has walked into a new dispute over proposed changes in the role of the armed forces.... Read More

CHILE | FDI recovery.... Read More