LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 31 May 2019

On 30 May, thousands of students took to the streets across Brazil for the second time this month to protest against the government’s education policy.... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released figures for GDP growth, which show that Brazil’s GDP by contracted 0.2% in the first quarter of 2019 compared to teh previous quarter.... Read More

On 30 May, the director of Amnesty International in Chile (AI-C), Ana Piquer, presented a 14-page report on human rights developments under the current government led by Chile's President Sebastián Piñera, which took office in March 2018.... Read More

* Argentina’s request to have the US$320m restitution for the 2008 expropriation of Aerolíneas Argentinas airline annulled has been rejected by the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).... Read More

A spate of murders across four prisons in Brazil’s northern state of Amazonas has once again shone a light on the failings of the country’s penitentiary system.... Read More

Last week, rumours began to circulate about the words ‘impeachment’ and ‘parliamentary system’ being bandied around the corridors of Brasília, as Brazil’s congress appeared ever more exasperated by its fractured relationship with President Jair Bolsonaro, and the obstacle this represents to governability.... Read More

Worrying poll numbers and a general strike challenge President Mauricio Macri’s re-election bid.... Read More

President Sebastián Piñera is due to deliver his second state-of-the-nation speech over the weekend, on 1 June.... Read More

After years of failed attempts to promote an electoral reform that eliminates the use of closed or ‘blanket lists’ (closed candidates lists) in legislative elections, the Paraguayan government led by President Mario Abdo Benítez has sanctioned a new law that does it.... Read More