LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 10 September 2018

Development: On 9 September, candidates running in Brazil’s 7 October presidential election took part in a third televised debate, during which they defended the importance of a peaceful electoral process.... Read More

* Authorities say that hostility towards Venezuelan migrants has increased and tensions have risen again in Brazil’s northern state of Roraima after a group of locals in Boa Vista, the state capital, killed a Venezuelan suspected of having beaten to death a Brazilian national.... Read More

Development: On 9 September, local public prosecutor Lorena Ledesma indicted Ulises Quintana, a national deputy from Paraguay’s ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana- Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) party, on five charges and asked for his impeachment so that he could face prosecution as part of an investigation into an international drug trafficking network allegedly headed by detained kingpin Reinaldo Javier 'Cucho' Cabaña.... Read More

Argentina: Argentina’s finance minister, Nicolás Dujovne, and cabinet chief, Marcos Peña, have signed an administrative decree authorising an increase in spending of more than Ar$40bn (US$1.1bn).... Read More

At different points in the last few decades a long list of Argentine presidents and ministers have tried to draw a line in the sand, defending the national currency against waves of apparently remorseless speculative attack.... Read More

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The UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac) in August published its latest economic outlook for the region, cutting back its 2018 GDP growth forecast to 1.5%, down from the 2.2% it had pencilled in last April.... Read More

In recent years, high oil prices have generally boosted economic performance in the region, via increased export earnings and stronger government spending.... Read More

Metals prices, although showing some differing trends on the back of particular supply and demand trends in individual markets, have risen across the board over the past year.... Read More

In August international coffee prices dipped below two psychologically important floor levels: US$100 per bag, and US$1 per lb.... Read More

Uruguay is moving forward with its quiet de-carbonisation programme: the latest national energy balance (Balance Energético Nacional 2017 – BEN) published by the ministry of industry, energy and mining reveals that last year renewable energy sources continued to expand.... Read More

Social media is big in Brazil.... Read More