LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 30 November 2018

Development: On 29 November, the current governor of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, Luiz Fernando Pezão, was arrested at his official residence by the federal police (PF) on charges of corruption, as part of a state-level investigation linked to the wide-ranging ‘Operação Lava Jato’ corruption probe.... Read More

* France’s President Emmanuel Macron has warned that the ambivalent position of Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro on combating climate change could prejudice the trade deal currently under negotiation between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).... Read More

Development: On 29 November Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri held bilateral meetings with several world leaders in Buenos Aires ahead of the start of the G-20 summit.... Read More

* Uruguay’s foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa has declared that the Merín Lagoon basin programme, an initiative backed by the European Union (EU), will become an engine of national development.... Read More

Gazeta do Povo, a Brazilian weekly, published an op-ed on 26 November by the future foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo.... Read More

The appointment of Brazil’s future education minister on 22 November came amid rumours that the evangelical caucus in congress was exercising its influence to dictate President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s choice.... Read More

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Still wrestling with the fallout from the killing of a Mapuche youth by the Carabineros militarised police, Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera is now being forced to confront a serious corruption scandal within the army.... Read More

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