LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 29 August 2018

Development: On 28 August, the local press reported that the state prosecutor’s office in Brazil’s São Paulo state (MPSP) has formally accused Fernando Haddad, the former mayor of the city of São Paulo and vice-presidential candidate for the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) in the 7 October general election, of administrative wrongdoing.... Read More

* Brazil’s agriculture minister, Blairo Maggi, has said that the country’s soya and maize crops could be threatened by a judge’s recent decision to suspend the use of glyphosate, a herbicide.... Read More

Development: On 28 August Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez said that he will ask his transport & public works minister, Víctor Rossi, to come up with a list of all Argentine construction firms operating in Uruguay which may have been involved in the so-called ‘Gloriagate’ scandal. ... Read More

Argentina: Argentina’s foreign ministry has announced that the country will start exporting soya oil to China again, three years after China suspended its imports of Argentine soya oil allegedly in response to an increase in its national production.... Read More