LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 10 September 2019

On 9 September, Brazil’s acting president Hamilton Mourão warned about the negative long-term effects that the US-China trade war will have on Brazil, despite short-term benefits to certain exports.... Read More

* Brazil’s minister for mines & energy, Bento Albuquerque, has said that he hopes that the draft law allowing for the privatisation of state-owned electricity company Eletrobras will be presented to congress by 20 September, and that the terms for privatisation will be established before the end of the year.... Read More

On 9 September, Alberto Fernández, the presidential candidate of the hard-line Peronist opposition Frente de Todos coalition, outlined a series of rules that his government would follow in developing Argentina’s economic policies should he win election in the 27 October general election.... Read More

* Argentina’s Production & Labour Minister Dante Sica and Brazil’s Economy Minister Paulo Guedes have signed a new automotive agreement, which commits Argentina and Brazil to gradual trade integration, culminating in free trade in the automobile industry by July 2029.... Read More