LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 30 September 2019

On 29 September, the Brazilian magistrates’ association (AMB) announced that it had filed a direct action of unconstitutionality (ADI) with the federal supreme court (STF) against a recently approved bill known as the ‘abuse of authority’ law.... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its latest employment figures, according to which unemployment for the three months from June to August stands at 11.8%, down from 12.1% in the same period last year and down from 12.3% in the March-May 2019 rolling quarter.... Read More

On 29 September, Rodolfo Suárez, the candidate for the Cambia Mendoza local grouping which is part of President Mauricio Macri’s ruling Cambiemos coalition, won the gubernatorial election in Argentina’s western Mendoza province.... Read More

*According to a new report by the Paraguayan chamber of exporters and marketers of cereals and oilseeds (Capeco) circulated in the local media, in the first eight months of 2019, Paraguay’s soya exports totalled 4.5m tonnes (t), down 15.5% on the same period in 2018.... Read More