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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 16 April 2020
From LatinNews Daily
On 15 April, Brazil’s supreme court (STF) ruled that states and municipalities have the authority to implement isolation and quarantine measures during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, rendering ineffective President Jair Bolsonaro’s threat that he might seek to override such containment efforts through a presidential decree. ... Read More
* Brazil’s Confederação Nacional das Indústrias (CNI), a private sector lobby, has released the results of its measure of business confidence in the industrial sector (Icei) for April, showing business confidence is at its lowest point since the series began in January 2010.... Read More
On 16 April Argentina’s foreign and health ministers Felipe Solá and Ginés González held a video conference with their Chilean counterparts Teodoro Ribera and Jaime Mañalich to discuss the countries’ respective coronavirus (Covid-19) strategies.... Read More
* According to Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec), the country registered monthly inflation of 3.3% in March.... Read More
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