LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 22 January 2020

On 21 January, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro announced the creation of a ‘council of the Amazon’ which will be responsible for coordinating actions on the protection and sustainable development of Brazil’s Amazon region.... Read More

* Brazilian prosecutors have brought charges for homicide and environmental crimes against Brazilian mining giant Vale SA and German auditor Tüv Süd, as well as a total of 16 executives and employees from both companies, over the collapse in January last year of a Vale-owned tailings dam in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais state, which killed at least 270 people.... Read More

Analysis: This would be the second impeachment trial that Abdo Benítez faces in under a year, after he survived an impeachment motion last August.... Read More

* Argentina’s economy minister, Martín Guzmán, has announced that the government led by President Alberto Fernández has sent down to the federal congress a new bill outlining its proposal to restructure the country’s foreign public debt.... Read More