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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 30 July 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 28 July thousands of people gathered in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro for a free music concert organised by the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) party to call for the release of former president and PT presidential hopeful in the 7 October general election, Lula da Silva (2003-2011).... Read More
* Brazil’s supreme court (STF) has temporarily suspended, pending review, a lower court ruling ordering the state-owned oil firm, Petrobras, to pay R$17bn (US$4.3bn) in backdated pay to its employees.... Read More
Development: On 28 July Celestino Córdova, an indigenous Mapuche shaman (machi), was transferred to Padre Las Casas commune, in Chile’s southern impoverished La Araucanía Region, to visit his Rewe (sacred altar).... Read More
Paraguay: Paraguay’s central bank (BCP) has revised upwards its GDP growth forecast for the year from 4.5% to 4.7%.... Read More
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