LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 14 February 2020

Argentina’s economy & finance minister, Martín Guzmán, appeared before the federal lower chamber of congress on 12 February to outline the government’s planned debt renegotiation with external creditors.... Read More

Chile’s interior minister, Gonzalo Blumel, launched a blistering attack on the political opposition this week after the governor of the metropolitan region of Santiago, Felipe Guevara, narrowly survived an impeachment motion in congress for his handling of popular protests since the outbreak of social unrest last October.... Read More

The announced creation of a ‘council of the Amazon’ in late January spurred hopes that President Jair Bolsonaro’s government might finally be beginning to address concerns surrounding the conservation of the Brazilian Amazon.... Read More

Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega, a suspected leader of a Rio de Janeiro-based death squad linked to paramilitary ‘milícia’ groups, was killed during a police operation on 9 February in Brazil’s north-eastern state of Bahia.... Read More

On 13 February, Brazil’s Vice President Hamilton Mourão concluded a two-day visit to the northern state of Roraima, on the border with Venezuela, to assess the government’s efforts at receiving Venezuelan migrants there. ... Read More

* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released figures which show that the services sector closed the year 2019 with a 1% year-on-year expansion, the first positive result for Brazil’s services sector in five years.... Read More

Argentina registered monthly inflation of 2.3% in January, according to data released by the national statistics institute (Indec) on 13 February.... Read More

* Uruguay’s tourism ministry (Mintur) has released figures for tourist arrivals to the country in January, which show a slight increase in the number of tourists compared with the previous year.... Read More