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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 20 November 2019
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On 19 November, Rodrigo Maia, a federal deputy from the centrist Democratas (DEM) party and the president of Brazil’s chamber of deputies, presented fellow lawmakers with a package of proposed social reforms dubbed the ‘agenda for social development’.... Read More
* The council for Brazil’s privatisation and concessions programme, known as the investment partnerships programme (PPI), has reportedly confirmed the auction for the country’s 5G spectrum in its 2020 portfolio.... Read More
On 19 November, Brazilian authorities issued a preventative arrest warrant against Paraguay’s former president Horacio Cartes (2013-2018) as part of Brazil’s ongoing ‘Lava Jato’ corruption investigation, in an operation dubbed ‘Patrón’ which also implicates the Paraguayan government’s current chief-of-staff, Juan Ernesto Villamayor.... Read More
* Argentina’s President-elect Alberto Fernández has held a phone conversation with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, in which they discussed coming up with a “sustainable plan” for Argentina to repay its debts while limiting further fiscal adjustments.... Read More
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