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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 1 April 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 31 March, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro arrived in Jerusalem, via Tel Aviv, for an official visit to Israel, where he held talks and signed cooperation agreements with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (IBGE) has released its latest unemployment figures, which show that unemployment in the three months to February 2019 had increased to 12.4%, up from 11.6% in the previous quarter (September-November 2018).... Read More
On 30 March, Luis Lacalle Pou formally launched his campaign for Uruguay’s presidency for the main opposition centre-right Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos).... Read More
* Fancap, the workers’ union of Uruguay’s state-owned oil, petrol and alcohol company Administración Nacional de Combustibles, Alcoholes y Portland (Ancap), has announced a 24-hour strike to protest economic sanctions placed on them by Ancap.... Read More
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