LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 09 November 2018

Development: On 8 November, 22 individuals were arrested in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, including elected state representatives, as part of an investigation into a kickback scheme in Rio de Janeiro’s state legislative assembly (Alerj). ... Read More

* Brazil’s council of coffee exporters (Cecafé) announced that coffee exports totalled a record 3.75m sacks in October (one sack = 60kg), a 29.1% year-on-year increase and a 20.1% monthly increase compared to September.... Read More

Development: On 8 November thousands of people took to the street in Chile’s capital Santiago and across the country in a national strike called by the country’s main union, Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT).... Read More

* Workers from Argentina’s state airline Aerolíneas Argentinas have resumed work after an 11-hour strike which resulted in the cancellation of over 250 national and international flights and left at least 31,000 passengers stranded in airports across the country.... Read More

As the presidential transition process gets underway, President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has begun to reveal the names of some of his cabinet appointees.... Read More

Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro is often dubbed the ‘Trump of the tropics’, a sometimes facile and inaccurate comparison with US President Donald Trump.... Read More

In what was looking like a relatively good week for Mauricio Macri, the Argentine president was pushing back on three fronts: trying to head off another general strike; sealing a deal which should get the 2019 budget approved in the federal senate; and seeking to influence a key supreme court ruling on pensions.... Read More

PARAGUAY | Taiwan completes donation.... Read More