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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 06 February 2020
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On 5 February, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro announced that he had signed a draft law which would allow for commercial agriculture, mining, and other extractive activities on protected indigenous territories.... Read More
* The monetary policy committee (Copom) in Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has held its first meeting of 2020, following which it decided to cut the Selic, the country’s benchmark interest rate, by 0.25 percentage points, to a new record low of 4.25%.... Read More
On 5 February Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández concluded his European tour in Paris, where he received the support of his French peer Emmanuel Macron for his government’s proposed renegotiation of its external debt.... Read More
* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released new figures which show the industrial manufacturing production index (IPI) for 2019 was down 6.4% on 2018.... Read More
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