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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 06 April 2020
From LatinNews Daily
On 5 April Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández issued a decree announcing the deferment until 31 December 2020 of some service repayments due on US-dollar denominated debt issued under Argentine law.... Read More
On 5 April, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said that he would not hesitate to sack any of his ministers who have begun to think too highly of themselves.... Read More
* The Brazilian real reached yet another record low against the US dollar last week, closing at R$5.326/US$1 on 3 April.... Read More
* Uruguay’s national statistics institute (INE) has released the latest figures for the consumer price index (IPC), which show that annual inflation rose to 9.2% in March, a 0.9 percentage-point increase on the previous month.... Read More
From Security & Strategic Review
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández has been promising judicial reform since taking office on 10 December 2019.... Read More
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has raised the question of how the containment of the outbreak should be managed in prisons, ideal incubators for the disease.... Read More
Brazil has seen a sustained drop in homicides for two years running, since violent deaths hit a record high of close to 65,000 in 2017.... Read More
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