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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 25 June 2019
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On 24 June, supreme court (STF) justice Luís Roberto Barroso suspended a decree signed by Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro last week which transfers the responsibility for demarcating indigenous territories from the federal indigenous rights agency (Funai) to the agriculture ministry (Mapa).... Read More
* Brazil’s national council on energy policy (CNPE) has presented guidelines for the liberalisation of the natural gas market, currently dominated by the state-owned oil company Petrobras.... Read More
On 24 June, Uruguay’s interior ministry confirmed that four prisoners, among them Italian Mafia boss Rocco Morabito, had escaped from a Montevideo detention centre known as Centro de Ingreso del INR. ... Read More
* Argentina’s agriculture ministry has announced that the first shipment of chilled beef destined for China has left Argentina, following the approval of a new sanitary protocol between both countries, which came into force in early June.... Read More
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