Brazil and Southern Cone - April 2019

In this edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone are included articles on matters that look set to have an impact on the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay.... Read More

Uruguay's electoral race looks like it will boil down to a neck-and-neck contest between the leftist ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition and the centre-right opposition Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos).... Read More

Brazil has finally signed a deal that could open its national spaceport to the US after almost two decades of negotiations.... Read More

Simon Kuznets, the renowned economist who was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in economics, famously said that there are four types of country: developed countries, underdeveloped countries, Japan, and Argentina.... Read More

Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera took office a year ago assuring that children will come first in his government.... Read More

Bolsonaro’s first bonds: On 21 March, Brazil’s government 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