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Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2019

Introduction
The trade deal between the Southern Common Market trade bloc (Mercosur), comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and the European Union (EU), that was hailed as historic when it was reached in earlier in June, is already running into trouble due to factors within both Mercosur and the EU.... Read More
Region
There are two stories to be told about the Southern Common Market trade bloc comprising Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay (Mercosur) right now.... Read More
Argentina
Argentina has been cooperating closely with the US on the security front, for example pursuing coordinated efforts to fight arms trafficking [SSR-19-08] and following the US’s lead by listing Hezbollah a terrorist organisation [SSR-19-09].... Read More
Argentina’s unrelenting economic crisis is pushing more of its citizens into poverty according to data from the national statistics institute (Indec).... Read More
Trade tensions between the US and China may deliver an important boost to Argentina’s soya farmers.... Read More
Brazil
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
The Brazilian senate approved the government’s pension reform bill on 2 October, with the votes of 56 out of 81 senators.... Read More
Paraguay
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
Uruguay
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
Uruguay’s incumbent left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition can claim to have outperformed neighbours like Brazil and Argentina, delivering uninterrupted year-on-year GDP growth for the last decade and a half.... Read More

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