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Brazil & Southern Cone - July 2019

Introduction
The conclusion on 28 June of two-decade-long trade talks between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) has been at the centre of the news in the Mercosur member countries – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.... Read More
Region
After 39 rounds of negotiations over almost two decades, the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the European Union (EU) announced a trade deal on 28 June.... Read More
Argentina
On 26 June, Alberto Fernández, the Peronist challenger hoping to dethrone the becalmed administration of President Mauricio Macri in October’s presidential elections, met the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Western Hemisphere representative Alejandro Werner to discuss the structure of the country’s debt with the organisation.... Read More
Chile
By June, President Sebastián Piñera needed to take urgent action.... Read More
Brazil
Periodically, the underlying problems in Brazil’s prisons flare up in an explosion of violence.... Read More
Paraguay
A deadly riot at the San Pedro de Ycuamandyyú prison in Paraguay’s northern San Pedro department has brought into sharp focus the parlous state of country’s prison system.... Read More
Uruguay
A corruption ring uncovered at the national police force has raised serious concerns about the emergence of police corruption in Uruguay.... Read More
Highlights
Petrobras to give up natural gas market monopoly: On 8 July, Brazil’s anti-trust regulator Cade reached a cease and desist agreement (TCC) with state-owned oil company Petrobras over the former’s investigation into the latter’s alleged anticompetitive behaviour in Brazil’s natural gas market.... Read More

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