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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 12 October 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 11 October, the candidates in Brazil’s 28 October presidential run-off, Jair Bolsonaro (Partido Social Liberal, PSL) and Fernando Haddad (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT), gave several separate interviews to national media in which they discussed future policies and ministerial appointments.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (IBGE) estimates that the September crop of cereals, legumes, and oilseeds in the country will total 226.2m tonnes, a 6% decrease on the September 2017 crop.... Read More
Development: On 11 October Carlos Silva, the president of the association of active and retired military officers, Centro Militar, said that the conditions are in place for the military to take power again in Uruguay as “there is no democracy”.... Read More
* The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced that it will be funding a project to increase youth employment and reduce the gender gap through sports in Argentina, in association with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Jair Bolsonaro has emerged as the clear winner in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, which took place on 7 October, although he was a few percentage points shy of the absolute majority needed to avoid a run-off vote.... Read More
One of Paraguay’s most influential political families has become the latest target of local prosecutors.... Read More
Chile is facing one of its worst ever health crises, stemming from pollution, after reports of an industrial gas leak in Quintero and Puchuncaví communes, in Valparaíso Region, recently forced hundreds of people to seek medical treatment for vomiting and nausea.... Read More
ARGENTINA | Economic travails.... Read More
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