LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 25 October 2019

On 24 October, the official campaign period ahead of the 27 October first-round of voting in Argentina’s general election ended.... Read More

On 24 October, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro arrived in China, the second stop after Japan on his ten-day tour of Asia and the Middle East. ... Read More

* Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has released its latest balance of payments figures, which show that Brazil’s current account deficit rose to 2.05% of GDP (US$34.7bn) in the 12 months to September 2019, up from 1.86% in the previous 12 months to August.... Read More

* Paraguay’s central bank (BCP) has lowered its domestic economic growth forecast for 2019, from 1.5% to 0.2%.... Read More

It was Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri’s last chance to shake up the campaign leading up to the 27 October general election first-round vote, in which he continues to trail in second place in the presidential race.... Read More

After 10 months Brazil’s far-right government led by President Jair Bolsonaro has hailed passage of the pension reform bill, approved in a 60-19 final senate vote on 22 October, as a major victory.... Read More

A country often described as one of the wealthiest and most politically stable in Latin America has experienced a sudden and widely unexpected social explosion.... Read More

Comparatively speaking Chile is seen as one of the safer countries in Latin America with low rates of crime and homicide.... Read More

Ahead of the first round of the Uruguayan elections due on 27 October the balance of probabilities seemed to indicate the electorate was set to click a few notches towards the Right.... Read More

The Brazilian government has abandoned its controversial attempt to appoint the President’s third son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, as the new Brazilian ambassador in Washington.... Read More