LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 02 January 2020

On 31 December 2019 Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro published a series of tweets defending the benefits of regularising wildcat mining on protected indigenous territories.... Read More

* Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has posted the government’s latest fiscal statistics, according to which the public sector’s primary deficit totalled R$15.3bn (US$3.81bn) in November 2019, down from R$15.6bn in November 2018.... Read More

On 31 December 2019 Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera released a New Year’s message in which he called on Chilean society to come together to heal the wounds left behind by the ongoing social protests that erupted in the country in mid-October.... Read More

* Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has raised Argentina’s long-term foreign currency rating from ‘SD’ (selective default) to ‘CC’ (a measure on a rating scale meaning default is expected as a “virtual certainty”, regardless of when).... Read More