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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 22 March 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 21 March, Brazil’s former president Michel Temer (2016-2019) was arrested in São Paulo on charges linked to the Lava Jato (‘Car Wash’) corruption investigation.... Read More
* Brazil’s government has successfully issued US$1.5bn worth of 10-year bonds in the US and European markets, with an interest rate of 4.7%.... Read More
On 21 March, Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera met his Colombian peer Iván Duque in Chile.... Read More
* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released new figures which show that the country’s GDP contracted by 2.5% in 2018.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has always been open about his admiration for his US peer Donald Trump, to whom he is so often compared that he has earned the moniker ‘the Trump of the Tropics’.... Read More
Argentina’s central bank (BCRA) hoisted the benchmark interest rate back up to record levels last week after inflation reached a 12-month high in February.... Read More
Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez adjudged that the army commander, Guido Manini Ríos, had gone too far last week and summarily dismissed him.... Read More
BRAZIL | Airport concessions.... Read More
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