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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 21 January 2020
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On 20 January, at least 26 prisoners escaped from the 'Francisco d’Oliveira Conde' prison in Rio Branco, the state capital of Acre in Brazil’s northern region.... Read More
* Brazil has become the fourth destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) Investment Trends Monitor.... Read More
On 20 January Paraguay’s secretary general of the presidency, Juan Ernesto Villamayor, admitted that the escape of 75 inmates from a prison in Pedro Juan Caballero, Amambay department, was the result of corruption and failings in the country’s intelligence apparatus.... Read More
* Argentina’s economy ministry has announced that it has succeeded in exchanging Ar$99.6bn (US$1.6bn) worth of peso-denominated treasury bonds (Lecaps) as part of the bond swap offer opened on 20 January.... Read More
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