LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 24 January 2019

Development: On 23 January, Brazil’s government chief-of-staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, presented 35 goals to be met within the new administration’s first 100 days in office.... Read More

* A total of 529,500 jobs were created in Brazil’s formal employment sector in 2018, the first positive result since 2014.... Read More

Development: On 23 January, Uruguay’s foreign ministry released a joint statement with Mexico in which both countries urged Venezuelan society to find a peaceful and democratic solution to the deepening crisis in their country.... Read More

* Gustavo Cañonero, the vice president of Argentina’s central bank (BCRA), has said it will take a “long time” for the national inflation rate to fall.... Read More

This January edition of Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone analyses issues that are quickly turning into major public concerns in Chile, Brazil, and Paraguay.... Read More

As the institution lurches from one crisis to another, the fissures within Chile’s Carabineros, the country’s militarised police force, continue to deepen.... Read More

Spanning nine South American countries, the Amazon rainforest is known globally as the ‘lungs of the world’.... Read More

The 31 December 2018 marked the end of another controversial federal military intervention in Rio de Janeiro state: an emergency decree signed by former president Michel Temer (2016-1 January 2019) last February to crackdown on urban violence that was – and still is – widespread.... Read More

Brazil’s newly inaugurated president Jair Bolsonaro has signalled his intention to deepen ties with Paraguay.... Read More

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