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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 15 May 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 14 May, residents from the Complexo do Alemão favela complex in greater Rio de Janeiro blocked a road to protest the death earlier that day of a local resident, shot in the head, reportedly by the police.... Read More
* Brazil’s economy minister, Paulo Guedes, said that the government is now working with GDP growth predictions of 1.5% for this year, down from earlier projections of around 2%, although this is yet to be formalised.... Read More
On 14 May the leadership committee of Argentina’s main opposition Partido Justicialista (PJ, Peronist) held a meeting which concluded with a call to unite the movement ahead of presidential election in October.... Read More
* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released new figures which show the number of foreign tourists visiting Argentina in the first quarter of the year was up 23.1% compared with the same quarter of 2018 to reach 839,700.... Read More
From Latin American Security & Strategic Review
In early April, Rio de Janeiro hosted the 12th edition of the biennial Latin America Defence and Security Exhibition (LAAD), the region’s largest defence industry event.... Read More
Brazil broke its own record for homicides in 2017, with around 64,000 violent deaths.... Read More
“Our government’s first priority is to combat crime and drug trafficking more efficiently,” President Sebastián Piñera said on 14 March as he announced a bill that would expand the police’s powers to stop and search suspect individuals in public spaces.... Read More
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