LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 09 August 2018

Development: On 8 August Argentina’s federal senate voted against giving final congressional approval to a bill that sought to decriminalise abortion in the country.... Read More

Development: On 8 August, the local press calculated that with the alliance of nine political parties behind his presidential bid, Geraldo Alckmin, the presidential candidate of the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) in the 7 October general election, and his allies will receive R$828m (US$220m) from the new public fund created to pay for political campaigns in the country, 48% of the total R$1.72bn contained in the fund.... Read More

*Brazil’s national statistics institute (IBGE) has released new figures, which show that the national inflation rate stood at 0.33% in July.... Read More

Uruguay: Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez has told a local radio station, Radio Sarandí, that the mining company Aratirí, a subsidiary of Zamin Ferrous (which was set up by an Indian magnate), has formally filed a lawsuit against Uruguay for US$3.53bn.... Read More