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Weekly Report - 12 December 2019 (WR-19-49)

REGION: Mercosur adrift again?

The ‘family photo’ taken on 5 December at the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) trade bloc’s heads of state summit in Bento Gonçalves, a municipality in the heart of Brazil’s wine country in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, is already out of date. Argentina’s Mauricio Macri, whose wave and smile is mimicked by Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez, and Uruguay’s Vice-President Lucía Topolansky, has since reached the end of his term and handed over the presidency to Alberto Fernández.

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