LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 07 December 2018

Development: On 6 December, evangelical pastor Damares Alves was announced as the future minister for women, family and human rights in the incoming government of Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro. ... Read More

* A Brazilian federal judge from a São Paulo court has ordered the temporary suspension of the Boeing-Embraer merger deal.... Read More

Development: On 6 December Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera requested that a former general director of the Carabineros militarised police, Bruno Villalobos, be charged with the fatal torture of a student in 1985.... Read More

* The Paraguayan chamber of maquiladora firms (Cemap) has reported that national maquila exports between January and November have totalled US$637m, a 55% increase compared with the same period last year.... Read More

“Receiving the most important leaders in the world altogether at the same time in the same place is something that has never happened in our country,” Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri said on the eve of the G-20 summit which Buenos Aires hosted on 30 November and 1 December.... Read More

Peru’s former president Alan García (1985-1990; 2006-2011) was forced to vacate the Uruguayan embassy in Lima on 3 December after his asylum request was rejected.... Read More

President Sebastián Piñera last week celebrated a fall in crime in Chile.... Read More

With President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet almost complete, attention is now turning to the level of support he can expect to have in the incoming federal congress.... Read More

Last week, the international heads of state who were gathered in Argentina for the G-20 summit reiterated their commitment to the “irreversible” Paris Agreement on climate action.... Read More

PARAGUAY | Economic cooperation with Japan.... Read More