LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 27 January 2020

On 25 January, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro was received by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, while on a state visit during which the two countries signed a series of bilateral agreements.... Read More

* Brazil’s economy ministry has released the latest figures from the national employment registry (Caged), according to which a total of 644,079 formal jobs were created in 2019.... Read More

On 26 January the Chilean government announced that an observer mission from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) arrived in the country and began its work.... Read More

*Argentina’s economy ministry has announced the creation of a new technical office that will be in charge of assisting the ministry with the renegotiation of the country’s debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).... Read More

Having inherited a major economic crisis in a notoriously volatile economy, the Argentine government of President Alberto Fernández which took over on 10 December 2019 is not doing too badly.... Read More

Once more the ‘Vaca Muerta’ shale oil and gas deposits in Patagonia are being touted as the solution to Argentina’s recurring economic troubles.... Read More

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has delivered a slightly mixed endorsement of the Uruguayan economy.... Read More

Chile is facing something of a retail industry melt-down as the upheaval caused by social and political protests enters its fourth month.... Read More

PARAGUAY| Fiscal deficit larger than anticipated.... Read More