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

Development: On 22 November, Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro announced that Colombian-born Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez will take over as minister for education in his incoming government, which takes office on 1 January 2019.... Read More

* Brazil’s ministry of planning, development and management has released its assessment report for the fifth two-month period of 2018, in which it notes that the government must cut R$2.3bn (US$630m) out of its spending budget to stay within the R$159bn (US$41.8bn) primary deficit target.... Read More

Development: On 22 November a Chilean media outlet published a leaked audio recording during which the commander-in-chief of the army, Ricardo Martínez, reveals that officials within the institution have been selling weapons to drug trafficking organisations and other criminal groups. Significance: The incendiary revelations further harm the reputation of the army, which is already caught up in a corruption scandal.... Read More

* The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended that Chile strengthens its capacity to detect and protect its financial sector against cyberattacks.... Read More

It is axiomatic to say that the Odebrecht corruption scandal has had profound ramifications for established political and judicial systems across Latin America.... Read More

Two senior officials in Chile’s militarised police, the Carabineros, in the southern region of La Araucanía have resigned along with the region’s governor.... Read More

It was meant to be a non-partisan forum in which thinkers from around the world would be able to present their criticisms of the global capitalist order and the G-20 group of nations that seeks to perpetuate it.... Read More

Several new appointments are announced every day as the future government of Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro takes shape.... Read More

CHILE | Growth slows in third quarter.... Read More