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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 11 February 2020
From LatinNews Daily
On 10 February, São Paulo city’s municipal authorities reported that the city had seen 96% of the expected rainfall for the month in just the first ten days, with 40.9% of the average monthly precipitation falling yesterday morning alone.... Read More
* Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has announced that it closed the year 2019 with “excellent operational performance”, as annual production averaged 2.77m of barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), a 5.4% increase on 2018 production.... Read More
On 10 February the Argentine government abandoned the planned issuance of three bonds after failing to receive any offers it deemed acceptable.... Read More
*A new public opinion poll by local pollster, Cadem, has found that 43% of respondents believe that Chile’s domestic economic situation will worsen in the first half of 2020 compared with only 13% who believe that the situation will improve.... Read More
From Security & Strategic Review
Part of President Sebastián Piñera’s efforts to respond to the popular protests which have been shaking Chile since mid-October 2019 have focused on the pursuit of a security agenda, described as “an ensemble of measures to guarantee social peace and reinforce public order and citizen security.” Seven of the 11 measures are bills seeking to change legislation relating notably to police work and the definition of different crimes in the penal code.... Read More
Rosario, Argentina’s third most populous city, in the province of Santa Fe, is no stranger to upticks in violence.... Read More
In the space of two days in January, over 100 inmates linked to the Brazilian criminal organisation Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) escaped from prisons some 3,000km apart in Paraguay and Brazil.... Read More
The so-called ‘anti-crime package’ came into force in Brazil on 23 January.... Read More
Brazil’s police force is notoriously violent, with the high number of homicides committed by the police in Rio de Janeiro usually held up as an example of this.... Read More
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