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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 27 August 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 26 August, the G7 countries announced their intention of providing US$20m to help combat forest fires in the Amazon.... Read More
* Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has celebrated the conclusion of a trade deal between the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and the European Free Trade Association (Efta), comprised of Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein, as “one more big victory for our trade opening diplomacy”.... Read More
On 26 August, Alberto Fernández, the presidential candidate of the Frente de Todos hard-line Peronist coalition, accused the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of being responsible for the “social catastrophe” affecting Argentina.... Read More
* Chile’s finance minister, Felipe Larraín, has announced a fiscal stimulus package for the second half of 2019 and for 2020 totalling US$571m in a bid to try to stimulate domestic economic activity.... Read More
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