LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 09 September 2019

On 8 September, Brazil’s supreme court (STF) suspended an injunction by Rio de Janeiro state's justice tribunal (TJ-RJ) which allowed the confiscation of books touching upon the subject of homosexuality in Rio’s biennial book fair.  ... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the latest figures for the national consumer price index (IPCA), which registered a 0.11% monthly variation in August.... Read More

On 8 September, Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez sanctioned a law which declares a state of emergency in the country’s penitentiary centres.... Read More

* The Paraguayan government has announced that ECB Group, a Brazilian energy and agriculture company, will invest US$800m to build the first renewable biofuel production plant ‘Omega Green’ in the southern hemisphere.... Read More

Argentina has become the first Latin American country to designate the Islamist Shi’a militant group Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, something which has been a demand of the US and Israeli governments, as well as Argentina’s Jewish community, for years.... Read More

In the first few months of 2019, the Brazilian state of Roraima reportedly exported US$6.5m worth of gold to India, making the precious metal the state’s second-largest export after soya.... Read More

As of 6 August, Chile’s armed forces are authorised to work alongside the police force in the fight against drug trafficking along the country’s borders.... Read More

The murder of a farm manager at the hands of an armed group in the Paraguayan department of Amambay, which borders Brazil, has raised questions around the involvement of indigenous peoples in the Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP) insurgent guerrilla group.... Read More