LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 20 September 2019

On 19 September Senator Fernando Bezerra Coelho tendered his resignation after Brazil’s federal police (PF) implicated him in a corruption scheme and raided his offices in congress.... Read More

* Neoenergía, the Brazilian subsidiary of Spanish energy company Iberdrola, has announced the construction of the ‘Oitis’ wind power complex, which is expected to have an installed capacity of 566.5MW.... Read More

On 19 September Argentina’s finance ministry revealed that it had sent a bill to congress to “reprofile” public debt in the face of the liquidity crisis confronting the government.... Read More

* Paraguay’s chamber of deputies has accepted modifications made by the senate to a legislative initiative on the obligatory use of biofuels in Paraguay, and it will now go to the executive for promulgation.... Read More

On 15 September, the Brazilian daily Folha de São Paulo published a photograph of an Amazon landscape, in which a sky turned red by flames is reflected in the Tapajós River, one of the major tributaries of the Amazon River.... Read More

Raquel Dodge, the first woman to lead Brazil’s attorney general’s office (PGR), reached the end of her two-year term on 17 September.... Read More

President Mauricio Macri’s slender hopes of forcing a second round in Argentina’s presidential elections on 27 October appeared to be extinguished last week when inflation surged once again in Argentina.... Read More

The electoral fortunes of Daniel Martínez, the presidential candidate of Uruguay’s ruling left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition, appear to be reviving in line with the rapidly fading prospects of Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri, who will contest elections on the same day.... Read More

Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez decided to make an additional change to his ministerial cabinet this week following the resignation of his justice minister.... Read More