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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 05 August 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 2 August, Ricardo Galvão announced his departure as head of Brazil’s national institute for space research (Inpe) following his public disagreement with President Jair Bolsonaro over the reliability of the institute’s data on deforestation.... Read More
* Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has announced record financial results for the second quarter of 2019, posting a net income of R$19bn (US$4.89bn) for Q2 2019.... Read More
On 2 August, German authorities announced that they had seized the nation’s largest-ever haul of drugs on a container ship that departed from Uruguay in early July bound for the Belgian port of Antwerp.... Read More
* Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera has called on the US and China to end their trade war, which he described as “damaging” not only to both powers, but also to global growth, strongly affecting “open and integrated economies such as Chile”.... Read More
From Latin American Security & Strategic Review
In 2013, the United Nations (UN) designated 30 July as the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, with the aim of raising awareness of the situation of the victims of human trafficking, and of the promotion and protection of their rights.... Read More
With a general election looming and crime a major talking point, Argentina has gone to increasing lengths to stamp out a wave of gang crime and drug trafficking that has swept the country in recent years.... Read More
A joint operation by law enforcement bodies in Argentina, Brazil, and the US has led to the largest ever seizure of illegal firearms in decades.... Read More
Public security experts and sociologists fear that the hard-line security approach adopted by Rio de Janeiro’s state governor, Wilson Witzel, is encouraging violence and emboldening criminal organisations whose modus operandi depends on spreading terror.... Read More
Two unrelated incidents recently served as a reminder of the presence of European transnational criminal organisations, specifically Italian mafias, in the Southern Cone.... Read More
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- BRAZIL: Head of Inpe dismissed over deforestation data spat
- In brief: Brazil’s Petrobras disappoints on production
- URUGUAY: Historic drug seizure puts pressure on authorities
- In brief: Chile pleads for end to US-China trade war
- Human trafficking in LAC: a multi-faceted crime
- Argentina flirts with facial recognition technology
- Regional bodies join forces to combat arms trafficking
- Attempting to dismantle Rio’s ‘parallel state’
- The Italian Mafia in the Southern Cone