LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 12 July 2019

On 11 July, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said that he was thinking about appointing his son Eduardo, currently a federal deputy, as the country’s ambassador to the US.... Read More

* International credit ratings agencies have reacted positively to the approval of Brazil’s pension reform proposal by the federal chamber of deputies in a first round of voting.... Read More

On 11 July, Argentine journalist Marcelo Longobardi shared excerpts of his recent interview with President Mauricio Macri, in which the incumbent seeking re-election does not hold back on criticism of his political opponents.... Read More

* Argentina’s national institute of statistics (Indec) has released new figures which show that a total of 228,500 foreign tourists visited the country in May 2019, up 19.6% on the same month in 2018.... Read More

President Jair Bolsonaro’s government looks set to succeed where its predecessors failed: Brazil’s congress is closer than ever before to passing a significant reform to the country’s unsustainable pensions system.... Read More

On 5 July the latest issue of the Brazilian weekly magazine Veja hit the newsstands, and pictures of its front cover began doing the rounds online.... Read More

Just how serious is President Mario Abdo Benítez’s commitment to combating corruption? This has become the main question being asked in political circles in Paraguay almost a year into his five-year presidential term.... Read More

Argentina’s former president Fernando de la Rúa (1999-2001), who resigned shortly before the largest sovereign debt default in history, died on 9 July.... Read More