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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 08 November 2019
From LatinNews Daily
On 7 November, Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera announced that he had sent to congress a package of legislative bills designed to reinforce public security and help restore order in the country in the face of the violent protests against inequality that have been raging across Chile for the past three weeks.... Read More
On 7 November, Brazil’s supreme court (STF) decided, by a narrow 6-5 vote, that defendants can only be locked up after they have exhausted all their appeals.... Read More
* The Brazilian government has announced that it has awarded only one of the five oil production blocks that were put up for auction in the second round of its ‘mega auction’ of offshore oil concessions.... Read More
* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released new figures which show the manufacturing industrial production index (IPI) fell 5.1% in September compared with the same month in 2018.... Read More
From Latin American Weekly Report
With the concessions offered by President Sebastián Piñera failing to appease the demonstrators that have been mobilising in Chile for the past fortnight [WR-19-42] in rejection of social and economic inequality in the country, the government and Chile’s political class are under considerable pressure to usher in major changes to try to resolve the crisis.... Read More
The Brazilian government seems to be going ‘full neoliberal’ just as public opinion in other countries – notably Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador – is swinging sharply in the opposite direction and becoming more critical of undiluted capitalism.... Read More
Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou is the favourite to win Uruguay’s presidential run-off on 24 November, bringing to an end the 15-year tenure of the ruling left-wing Frente Amplio (FA).... Read More
Nearly two weeks on from Alberto Fernández’s victory in the first round of Argentina’s presidential elections and neither voters nor investors are any the wiser about his economic plans ahead of his investiture on 10 December.... Read More
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- CHILE: Piñera moves against violent protesters
- Brazil: Supreme court ruling could lead to Lula’s release
- In brief: Another disappointing oil auction in Brazil
- In brief: Argentina’s industrial production down 5.1% in September
- CHILE: Piñera gropes for political solution to social crisis
- BRAZIL: Neoliberal reform: vote winner or loser?
- URUGUAY: Lacalle Pou cements coalition and pulls clear
- ARGENTINA-MEXICO: Fernández makes statement visit