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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 14 February 2019

From LatinNews Daily
On 13 February, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said that Gustavo Bebianno, the minister of the secretary-general to the presidency, would be dismissed if he was found to be guilty of embezzling funds from the president’s Partido Social Liberal (PSL) during last year’s election campaign.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (IBGE) has released figures which show that retail sales in December 2018 fell by 2.2% month-on-month, after 'Black Friday' promotions led to a spike in November 2018.... Read More
On 13 February, Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez held a private meeting with his Argentine counterpart, Mauricio Macri, after which the two issued a joint statement calling for the staging of “free and credible” elections in Venezuela and for the flexibilization of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).... Read More
* Uruguay’s livestock, agriculture & fishing ministry (MGAP) has announced that the country has resumed beef exports to Japan.... Read More
From Latin American Security & Strategic Review
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Venezuela’s political, economic and humanitarian crisis has led to a re-emergence of previously eradicated or controlled infectious diseases.... Read More
“Today, we are making a great step forward,” President Sebastián Piñera said as he unveiled a draft bill to combat cybercrime and presented a presidential directive on cybersecurity in Chile on 25 October 2018.... Read More

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