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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 25 March 2020
From LatinNews Daily
On 24 March, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro gave a nationally televised address in which he once again downplayed the health risks of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, and accused the media and the country’s state governors of stoking panic.... Read More
* Brazil’s Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) university and think-tank has released its latest consumer confidence index (ICC), which shows that consumer confidence in March 2020 reached its lowest point since January 2017.... Read More
On 24 March local authorities reported that five inmates had been killed in two separate prisons in Argentina’s Santa Fe province during violent riots over the adoption of preventative measures to stop the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19).... Read More
* The head of Paraguay’s state-owned electricity firm (Ande), Luis Alberto Villordo, has warned that the firm could be rendered “insolvent” if proposals to temporarily suspend electricity tariffs to provide economic relief to consumers amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic are approved.... Read More
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