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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 09 October 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 8 October, an auditor in Brazil’s federal financial ombudsman, the Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU), ordered the suspension of the government’s advertising campaign for Justice & Public Security Minister Sérgio Moro’s ‘anti-crime package’ of public security bills, currently under discussion in the federal chamber of deputies. ... Read More
* Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has announced the conclusion of the sale of all its interests in the Pargo, Carapeba, and Vermelho shallow water oil fields off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state to Anglo-French firm Perenco.... Read More
On 8 October, Horacio Torres resigned as president of Paraguay’s national rural development and land institute (Indert), amidst bribery and corruption allegations brought against him by the state’s specialised economic crime and anticorruption unit.... Read More
* Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released new figures which show unemployment in August 2019 was 9.1%, up 0.1 percentage points compared with the same month in 2018 and unchanging since the previous month.... Read More
From Latin American Security & Strategic Review
Corruption is a massive issue in Latin America and is responsible for many of the problems that continue to affect the continent.... Read More
The Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública (FBSP), a public security think-tank, has published the 13th edition of its annual public security report, one of the leading sources of information on countrywide crime statistics in Brazil.... Read More
A series of recent security failings in Paraguay have led to a shake-up in the leadership of the country’s public security institutions, as members of the police force, penitentiary system, and government have been turfed-out for ills ranging from negligence to corruption and criminal association.... Read More
Several large cocaine seizures traced back to Uruguay have drawn attention to the drug trafficking flows from the small South American nation, generally considered a comparatively peaceful and crime-free country.... Read More
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