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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 13 June 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 12 June, The Intercept Brasil revealed new excerpts of leaked messages between now-Justice Minister Sérgio Moro and prosecutors from the ‘Lava Jato’ corruption probe taskforce, which implicate supreme court (STF) justice Luiz Fux in the allegations of wrongdoing.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has revealed that retail sales fell 0.6% in April this year compared to March, with a decrease in five of the eight observed retail sectors.... Read More
On 12 June, Uruguay’s Labour Minister Ernesto Murro argued that Uruguay should not be on the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) so-called ‘blacklist’ of countries which do not respect international labour conventions and labour rights, where its was placed the previous day by the ILO’s Committee of Experts.... Read More
* The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$40m loan to finance a support programme for the integrated management of public expenditure in Argentina.... Read More
From Latin American Security & Strategic Review
Between 14 June and 7 July, five Brazilian cities are playing host to the Copa America.... Read More
The launch of a tripartite cooperation initiative against drugs trafficking between neighbours Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay got off to a bad start, when fog prevented Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez and Argentina’s Security Minister Patricia Bullrich from flying to the Paraguayan border town of Pedro Juan Caballero in time to meet Sérgio Moro, Brazil’s justice & public security minister, on 3 June.... Read More
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