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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 10 December 2018
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Development: On 9 December, Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro announced that Ricardo de Aquino Salles will be his environment minister, thus completing the 22-minister cabinet which takes office on 1 January 2019. ... Read More
* Brazil’s President Michel Temer has signed a decree declaring a federal intervention in the northern state of Roraima, which borders Venezuela.... Read More
Development: On 8 December Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera announced that the special operations unit (Gope) of the Carabineros (militarised police) would withdraw from the southern region of La Araucanía, one of the main sites of the long-running Mapuche conflict stemming from indigenous claims to land.... Read More
* Uruguay’s union of petrol fuel sellers (Unvenu) has reported that there are no petrol stations with petrol fuel supplies in the Montevideo metropolitan area as result of the indefinite strike called by the fuel transport sector workers’ union (UTC) on 6 December.... Read More
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