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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 19 September 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 18 September Argentina’s Confederación de Trabajadores de la Educación (Ctera) teachers’ union called for a 24-hour national strike to demand that the provincial and national governments find a solution to the social discontent in the southern Chubut province.... Read More
On 18 September, a police operation in the Complexo do Alemão favela complex in the north zone of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro city reportedly left four to six people dead and one police officer seriously injured.... Read More
* The monetary policy committee (Copom) of Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has cut its benchmark interest rate (Selic) by half a percentage point to 5.5%.... Read More
* Uruguay’s central bank (BCU) has released a report stating that the country’s GDP grew by 0.1% in the second quarter of 2019 year-on-year, and 0.3% compared with the previous quarter.... Read More
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