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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 8 February 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 7 February, doctors announced that Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has a fever and is being treated for pneumonia and is expected to remain in semi-intensive care in for another seven days.... Read More
* Standard & Poor’s (S&P), the international credit ratings agency, has affirmed its ‘BB-’ long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings of Brazil with a ‘stable’ outlook.... Read More
On 7 February, Paraguay’s chamber of deputies unanimously voted in favour of a resolution dismissing the mayor of the Ciudad del Este (CDE), Sandra McLeod, from her post over a series of irregularities found in her administration.... Read More
* According to figures from Chile’s international economic relations directorate (Direcon), Chile’s exports totalled US$75.48bn in 2018, up 9% on 2017.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
On the surface the new administration of President Jair Bolsonaro has won an important victory with the appointment of supportive new house and senate speakers.... Read More
On 4 February justice and security minister Sergio Moro presented a package of new proposals designed to crack down on crime and corruption.... Read More
“An unprecedented moment in Chile’s history.” This was the response of former president Ricardo Lagos (2000-2006) to the recent decision by local judge Alejandro Madrid to convict six people of the 1982 murder of former president Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964-1970).... Read More
PARAGUAY | Bond issue.... Read More
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