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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 03 May 2019

From LatinNews Daily
On 2 May, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said in an interview with local TV channel SBT that the recently announced cuts to university budgets would allow for better investment in primary education.... Read More
* Brazil’s national industry confederation (CNI), a private sector lobby, has released statistics on industrial activity which show that the industrial sector’s problems are persisting.... Read More
On 2 May, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, the leader of Argentina’s main opposition Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronists) in the senate, revealed that the party has been approached by the government led by President Mauricio Macri with a proposal to issue a joint statement outlining a series of national policy points on which there is political consensus. ... Read More
* Chile’s state-owned copper mining firm, Codelco, has announced that it has successfully produced ore through underground operations in the Chuquicamata mine (Antofagasta Region). Codelco invested US$5.6bn in converting the decades-old mine from an open pit to an underground pit.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Just how much is at stake in Argentina’s presidential elections in October was laid bare this week.... Read More
Striking a balance between environmental protection and agribusiness interests has been a long-standing challenge for the government in Brazil, a country which is both home to two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest and one of the world’s largest agricultural producers.... Read More
Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera conducted an official tour of Asia over the course of the last week with visits to China and South Korea.... Read More
ARGENTINA | China opens its doors to pork.... Read More

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