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Weekly Report - 27 September 2018 (WR-18-38)
ARGENTINA: Pressure mounts on Macri despite new IMF deal
Argentina’s government has got what it wants: a bigger, more flexible, deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This should help to meet the short-term objective of stabilising the currency. Medium-term economic and political targets – reducing gnawing inflation and re-electing President Mauricio Macri in October next year – are a much taller order. Two days of protests and strikes in Argentina this week attested to the revival of the power of the country’s trade union movement and the strength of feeling against IMF intervention and the coming fiscal adjustment.
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- NICARAGUA: Private sector under pressure
- HAITI: New government takes shape
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Cosying up to Beijing
- Ecuador terminates then resuscitates intelligence agency
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