LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 24 March 2020

On 23 March, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro withdrew part of a decree he had issued mere hours earlier, which would have allowed employers to suspend salary payments for four months, after facing fierce criticism for the measure.... Read More

* Roberto Campos Neto, the president of Brazil’s central bank (BCB), has given assurances that the BCB is “absolutely calm and the national financial system will function perfectly well.... Read More

On 23 March Cathy Barriga, the mayor of the Chilean municipality of Maipú, Santiago Metropolitan Region, accused the government led by President Sebastián Piñera of not being transparent about the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in the country.... Read More

* Paraguay’s president Mario Abdo Benítez has presented an emergency bill to congress to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on the country’s public health system and economy.... Read More