LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 23 October 2018

Development: On 22 October Brazil’s presidential frontrunner, Jair Bolsonaro of the Partido Social Liberal (PSL), sent a letter to the longest-serving supreme court (STF) justice José Celso de Mello, in which he said that the STF is the “guardian of the constitution” and must be honoured by all.... Read More

* The Brazilian renewable energy subsidiary of Italian-owned Enel Group, Enel Green Power Brasil (EGPB), has begun the construction of a new solar power plant in São Gonçalo de Gurguéia, in Brazil’s north-eastern state of Piauí.... Read More

Development: On 22 October Chile's President Sebastián Piñera confirmed that the executive would call for the legislature to discuss “immediately” an initiative known as 'Aula Segura' ('safe classroom').... Read More

* Argentina’s finance minister, Nicolás Dujovne, has said that Argentina has succeed in reducing its fiscal deficit by 47% to 1.1% of GDP in the first nine months of the year compared with the same period last year.... Read More