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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 16 October 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 15 October, Brazil’s federal police (PF) conducted raids on properties owned by Luciano Bivar, a federal deputy and the president of the ruling Partido Social Liberal (PSL), as part of an investigation into the misuse of public party funds in the state of Pernambuco. ... Read More
* Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has reported that it has signed letters of intent with Japanse company Modec and Malaysian company Yinson for the chartering of two floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) platforms which will operate 150km off the Brazilian coast in the Campos basin, as part of the production revitalisation programme in the 'Marlim' and 'Voador' oil fields.... Read More
On 15 October, Ernesto Talvi, the presidential candidate of Uruguay’s right-of-centre opposition Partido Colorado (PC, Colorados), said that if he does not make it past the first round of the presidential election on 27 October, he will campaign for Luis Lacalle Pou of the centre-right Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos) in a potential second round.... Read More
* Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released new figures which show that manufacturing was up 4.1% in August 2019 year-on-year (5.3% if the Teja de Ancap refinery is excluded).... Read More
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