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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 17 October 2018
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Development: On 16 October, the president of Brazil’s Partido Democrático Trabalhista (PDT), Carlos Lupi, criticised the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), whose candidate Fernando Haddad is running in the second round of the presidential election on 28 October, for lacking self-criticism and never having backed anyone else. ... Read More
* Brazilian power distribution company Elektro, part of the Neoenergia group (which is owned by Spanish firm Iberdrola), and Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia have partnered to deliver a pioneering smart grid project in parts of São Paulo state, in and around the city of Atibaia.... Read More
Development: On 16 October Elisa Carrió, a national deputy in Argentina’s federal chamber of deputies, presented a motion calling for the impeachment of Justice Minister Germán Garavano for dereliction of duty.... Read More
* More than 3,000 workers from Chile’s state-owned oil company Empresa Nacional de Petróleo (Enap) have occupied two oil refineries amid an ongoing controversy over industrial pollution.... Read More
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