LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 10 January 2020

On 9 January, Brazil’s national judiciary council (CNJ), the body that oversees the functioning of the judiciary, announced that it was extending by 60 days the work of the commission tasked with regulating the work of ‘judges of guarantees’ in the country.... Read More

* Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has reported that the country’s foreign currency flows in 2019 were negative with the net result being that US$44.7bn flowed out of the country.... Read More

On 9 January, five provincial governors visited Argentina’s Casa Rosada presidential palace for meetings with senior cabinet ministers, which focused, for the most part, on the need for urgent financial assistance.... Read More

* Argentina’s central bank (BCRA) has announced that it has lowered its benchmark interest rate, the Leliq, to 52% from 55%.... Read More

The New Year has started in Chile in the same vein as the final months of 2019, with regular street protests in rejection of social inequality and the government’s poor handling of the discontent.... Read More

President Alberto Fernández argues that such is the scale of the task he faces that his government needs three months just to grasp the exact state of the national economy.... Read More

With just under two months to go until he takes office on 1 March, Uruguay’s president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou faces a long transition process.... Read More

Jair Bolsonaro completed a year as president of Brazil on 1 January.... Read More

BRAZIL | 2019 trade balance battered by global difficulties.... Read More