LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 01 November 2019

On 31 October, Luis Lacalle Pou, the candidate of the centre-right opposition Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos) in Uruguay’s presidential run-off on 24 November, concluded a round of meetings trying to secure the support of his defeated presidential opponents with a visit to the headquarters of the right-wing Cabildo Abierto (CA) party, which was represented by Guido Manini Ríos.... Read More

On 31 October, politicians from across Brazil’s political spectrum closed ranks to unanimously condemn comments made that day by federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, President Jair Bolsonaro’s son, suggesting the revival of a repressive dictatorship-era law if the Left becomes “radicalised”. ... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released the latest figures for unemployment, according to which the unemployment rate stood at 11.8% in the third quarter of 2019, a small decrease on the 12% recorded in the second quarter of the year and the 11.9% recorded during the same period last year.... Read More

* Paraguay’s national statistics directorate (Dgeec) has reported that across Paraguay the rate of unemployment in the third quarter was 6.2%, a decrease on the previous quarter, which registered 7.4%.... Read More

Alberto Fernández will become president of Argentina on 10 December.... Read More

The dominance of Uruguayan politics by the left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition is at an end.... Read More

In response to a nationwide wave of protests Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera has replaced eight cabinet ministers and announced a package of reforms.... Read More

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has reacted with fury to allegations linking him to the 14 March 2018 murder of the leftist Rio de Janeiro city councillor and long-time community activist Marielle Franco, which continues to be the subject of court investigations.... Read More

PARAGUAY | Paraguay registers greatest fall in exports.... Read More