LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 06 September 2019

On 5 September, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro announced that he will appoint deputy prosecutor Augusto Aras as the next head of the federal attorney general’s office (PGR).... Read More

* An agreement has been reached in Brazil’s supreme court (STF) for the use of a R$2.6bn (US$633m) fund referred to as the ‘Lava Jato’ fund.... Read More

On 5 September, the Un Solo Uruguay (USU) agricultural producers’ protest movement staged a demonstration in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo, demanding a response to the difficulties currently faced by the rural sector.... Read More

* Chile's President Sebastián Piñera has announced measures to address water shortages, which include resources to assist more than 380,000 affected families and farmers, investment in water infrastructure, and the promotion of efficiency in irrigation and water consumption.... Read More

In the last 40 years no democratically elected non-Peronist head of state in Argentina has succeeded in completing a full term in office.... Read More

“August appears to be the end of a difficult period for the Brazilian economy,” the secretary for economic policy in Brazil’s economy ministry, Adolfo Sachsida, said on 3 September.... Read More

On 2 September, leading members of over a dozen Brazilian political parties congregated in a lecture theatre in São Paulo’s Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) for the official launch of ‘Direitos Já! Fórum pela Democracia’ – a pro-democracy multiparty movement which has formed in opposition to parts of President Jair Bolsonaro’s agenda.... Read More

“Of course, what is happening in Argentina worries us, it harms us.... Read More

CHILE | Fiscal stimulus package.... Read More