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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 9 January 2020
From LatinNews Daily
On 8 January, Brazil’s national institute for space research, the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe), released annual data on wildfires which show that fires in the Amazon increased by 30% in 2019 compared with 2018.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its latest estimates for the country’s agricultural harvest, which point to a record 241.5m tonnes (t) of grains, leguminous plants, and oilseeds harvest in 2019.... Read More
On 8 January, Chile’s chamber of deputies voted in favour of creating a committee to investigate allegations of human rights violations committed by the Chilean state and security forces in their response to social protests since last October.... Read More
* Argentina’s finance secretariat has published an advert calling for applications to become the country’s Agente de Información (information officer) tasked with identifying the country’s foreign creditors This is part of the process by which the government led by President Alberto Fernández is seeking to renegotiate Argentina’s foreign debt.... Read More
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