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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 14 December 2018
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 13 December, Brazilian media reported that Rio de Janeiro state’s civil police had uncovered a plan by local militias to murder Marcelo Freixo, a Rio de Janeiro state deputy and federal deputy-elect for the left-wing Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL).... Read More
* The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Court has ruled that Brazil’s tax benefits measures in the automotive and information and communication technology (ICT) sectors are illegal under WTO rules.... Read More
Development: Argentina’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 3.2% in November, bringing accumulated inflation for the first 11 months of the year to 43.9%, according to figures published by the national statistics institute (Indec) on 13 December.... Read More
* Uruguay’s central bank (BCU) has released new figures which show that the country’s third quarter GDP was up 2.1% compared with the same period last year.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro and Vice-president-elect Hamilton Mourão took part in a ceremony on 10 December during which the supreme electoral court (TSE) presented them with diplomas confirming their electoral victory in October.... Read More
A presidential decree has put Brazil’s impoverished northern state of Roraima under federal intervention until 31 December.... Read More
After a tough year, in which his government has had to contend with a currency crisis, Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri will have been hoping for a stress-free end to 2018.... Read More
PARAGUAY | Downwards growth revision.... Read More
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