LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 13 March 2020

On 12 March, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes announced the creation of a group to monitor the economic impacts of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in Brazil, and a series of measures targeting the demographic most vulnerable to the disease.... Read More

* Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has reduced the price of fuel in its refineries, with a 9.5% decrease in the price of gasoline and a 6.5% drop in the price of diesel, effective as of today (13 March).... Read More

On 12 March the United Nations (UN) denounced the continued violations of protesters’ human rights by Chile’s security forces, stressing that President Sebastián Piñera’s government has almost entirely ignored the organisation’s recommendations following its review in December 2019.... Read More

* International credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings has maintained Chile’s Long-Term Foreign Currency Issue Default Rating (IDR) at ‘A’ but has revised its outlook on the rating from ‘stable’ to ‘negative’.... Read More

Conjecture abounds when it comes to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.... Read More

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro travelled to Florida on 7 March for his fourth visit to the US since he took over the presidency in January 2019.... Read More

A baffling story involving a former football star and fake passports is causing waves in Paraguay.... Read More

Chilean protesters kept their word [WR-20-09] as protest actions in the first 11 days of March, following the summer break, were of a similar magnitude and drew as much zeal as when unrest first broke out in October 2019.... Read More

BRAZIL | Guedes pushes fiscal reforms to help shield economy.... Read More