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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 15 January 2019
From LatinNews Daily
Development: On 14 January, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro announced that retired army major Vítor Hugo Almeida, a federal deputy from the president’s Partido Social Liberal (PSL), will be the government leader in the federal chamber of deputies.... Read More
* Environment Minister Ricardo Salles has said that Brazil will remain in the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change “for now”, despite some opposition to the international agreement in government.... Read More
Development: On 14 January, the head of Paraguay’s public works & communications ministry (MOPC), Arnoldo Wiens, announced the suspension of the awarding of ministerial contracts following accusations of irregularities in the process.... Read More
* According to a report conducted by Manuel Ferreira, Paraguay’s former finance minister (2012-2013), and published by national daily ABC Color, a lower soybean harvest this year will impact the country’s GDP by 0.8%. According to the report, crops and data collected from certain areas where soybeans are already being harvested show yield losses are between 10% and 12% - a figure which amounts to around 1m tonnes.... Read More
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