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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 30 March 2020
From LatinNews Daily
On 28 March, Laura Bastos Carvalho, a federal judge in Rio de Janeiro, ruled that Brazil’s federal government should suspend all advertising material in the ‘Brazil can’t stop’ campaign, which rejects the restrictive isolation measures being taken to contain the coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country.... Read More
* Brazil’s national development bank (BNDES) is making R$2bn (US$392m) available to health sector companies as part of efforts to fight the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
On 29 March Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández announced the extension until 12 April of the national quarantine that he declared on 20 March to try to slow the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country.... Read More
* The president of Paraguay’s auto part manufacturers’ association (AIAP), Martín Cuadro, has complained that the emergency economic measures adopted by the government led by President Mario Abdo Benítez to try to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on the domestic economy are only financial, and will not safeguard jobs in the medium term.... Read More
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