LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 06 November 2019

On 5 November, the Brazilian government led by President Jair Bolsonaro presented to the federal congress its ambitious package of economic reforms that aims to tackle the fiscal deficit, reduce government spending and the size of the state, and decentralise federal budget resources to states and municipalities. ... Read More

* A judge in Brazil’s São Paulo state has denied a petition sent by the local state-owned bank Caixa Econônomica Federal (Caixa) to declare Odebrecht, the Brazilian engineering firm, bankrupt.... Read More

On 5 November, Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, the presidential candidate of the centre-right opposition Partido Nacional (PN, Blancos), forged a multi-party coalition ahead of the second round of Uruguay’s presidential elections on 24 November.... Read More

* Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released the latest figures on the country’s consumer price index (IPC), which registered an increase of 0.75% in October.... Read More

In October, Peru hosted the First High Level Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade in the Americas, the first such event focused on wildlife trafficking in the region.... Read More

In late August, Brazil’s justice & public security minister Sérgio Moro launched a pilot plan in five cities across the country, aimed at fighting violent crime through the integration of different public security forces and the implementation of new structures adapted to local realities.... Read More

Chile has been badly affected by drought in recent years, but the past months have been particularly bad.... Read More

Following the escape to Finland of three Paraguayan nationals wanted in Paraguay on kidnapping charges, the Paraguayan government has complained that the fugitives were allowed to exploit the international asylum system by various countries and even the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR).... Read More