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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 18 October 2019

From LatinNews Daily
On 17 October, the secretary-general of the board of Brazil’s federal chamber of deputies announced that deputy ‘Delegado Waldir’ Soares de Oliveira would remain leader of the ruling Partido Social Liberal (PSL) in the chamber after an attempt to appoint deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro in his place failed to garner enough valid signatures. ... Read More
* Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has reported its production results for the third quarter of 2019, which presented an overall 9.3% increase on the previous quarter.... Read More
On 17 October Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, the presidential candidate of Uruguay’s main opposition centre-right Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos), said that he would seek to build a broad political coalition to govern if he wins election.... Read More
* The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, said the IMF remains committed to working with Argentina to help it overcome its current financial and economic problems, but indicated that the continuity of the US$57bn Stand-by Arrangement (SBA) with the country will depend on the economic policies adopted by the new Argentine government that emerges from the upcoming general election.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
Brazil’s federal police raided properties in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco on 15 October linked to federal deputy Luciano Bivar, head of the Partido Social Liberal (PSL), the right-wing party that helped sweep Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency this time last year.... Read More
Anyone expecting Alberto Fernández to back off in the first of two presidential debates in Argentina on 13 October, safe in the knowledge that he has a huge lead in opinion polls, would have been rapidly disabused of this notion.... Read More

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